Loading Sequences with the associated Programs / Plugins

First time poster, long time lurker.

Is there any way to load a sequence so that the associated Program I had saved with it also loads? Or is loading up Programs always a manual job?

Say I save a sequence from one project and want to open it in another project, it's a huge time waste to have to then go back and load every single Program also.

Tips / suggestions welcome!

In the situation you describe, no, not possible. You can create a 'demo' sequence which will load a single program with the sequence (both the SQX and XPM file need to have the same name), but you can't load multiple programs this way.