QUOTE(brant @ Sep 5 2010, 11:48 PM)
...I only bed pads in 1 session...
Me too. An hour or two of cooldown before hard use is plenty of time IMO.
I gradually heat them by increasing the speed from which I apply moderately aggressive braking, similar to the method prescribed by KFP, until the pads are at about 60% of full operating temp and I can smell the binder outgassing every time I apply the brakes.
Then I continue to drive, using the brakes as little as possible until the end of the session, to start cooling them down.
I also notice an initial fade that goes away soon, the first time out on freshly bedded pads.
When one can no longer smell the pads while they're hot, they are fully conditioned.
Bedding new rotors with new pads sounds like the right thing to do.
Brake pad compounds are not all compatible with each other, sometimes causing problems when switching pads on rotors that aren't fully cleaned off in between.