As discussed in the News & Chat forum, I've written a patch for the turntable code to behave like most users expect the turntable to behave. It's quite simple and works well. I don't have commit privileges, but if someone wants to try it out and commit it, the patch is at: http://washucsc.org/~jha/blender-source-blender-src-view.c.patch John Aughey