Hi DozyWannabe,
Either way it doesn't alter the fact that without over controlling, the THS wouldn't have ended up in that position,
I disagree.
According to the description given in FCOM the aircraft will attempt to maintain pitch and 1g. Even stick free, whilst climbing and decelerating - it will trim more nose up. At the apogee, as it started to fall, provided the sensed g was greater than g/2, then it would trim even more nose up in an attempt to hold 1g.
Perhaps you wouldn't find any of that confusing because it behaved as it was designed, but with a lifetime of conventional aircraft handling qualities behind me - I would most definitely find it confusing.
Normally, when the automatics don't do as we want - we take manual control (as a simple starting base) and then add the automatics gradually.
This crew never had a simple manual control starting base.