I prefer to have discounting by quantity, not be dollar amounts.
I'd just love to have the availibility of having it in sub-categories---as you mentioned.


I also found a problem while I'm coding.
I added an attribute and I selected
Apply Discounts Used by Product Special/Sale: NO
and the discounts are still coming up.

Can you check on this for me?

I selected 3 of the same items to do this as a test (if that helps)

thanks,
Jeff Warzecho