tastewar:
Sheesh. I'd have hoped/thought that the pads would just be a property of the component that could be changed easily. Of course I've never used Eagle (or any other) CAD software...
I think the way this works is that each compnent has a "package" property and it just needs to be changed.
I'm also not certain that its better to use square. There dos not seem to be a concensus on this. I plan to reflow some boards between now and Sunday and the boards have round pads for 0805 components. We'll see how it works.