Just go ahead and say it. i1Profiler is a Nightmare. At a time when many were trying to come up with standard formats for exchanging color data, (there is an XML format called TED I have seen work very well (and as a matter of fact, Chromix is the first one I have personally witnessed, that has implemented it successfully (Colorthink can export ted; I have and imported it elsewhere VERY successfully) and there is the Spot Color exchange format CXF that's making good progress... Anyway X-rite comes up with all of these cryptic formats for all of it's data. And I believe many different formats of the same types of files. As to those sliders, I would not be surprised if they were just designed in, by the GUI designers but never utilized by the code writers.... just empty buttons.
The interface is Stupid, but it works, so I won't complain about that.