thanks for trying to help but i have checked the mentioned group options. I can see the 3 choices. normal, greed/loot all/decine all. Mine was set to normal and still is set to normal. but still a left click on anything lootable - chests.mobs.collections - will pick up everything and place it in my bags. i have no choice to decline looting like i could at one time.I will double check again but i believe "normal" is the default setting.
i am using the default UI except for the addition of the EQ2maps add on.