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Don't worry too much about East, West, North or South atm. When you get a star centered in your reticle at the meridian, rotate the reticle so its lines are parallel to your hand paddle movements. From there check to make sure you have your orientation correct, up and down arrows for Dec and left and right arrows for RA. (You probably already know this but it helps to eliminate possibilities)
No matter how far out you are in polar alignment you don't get drift in RA, only in DEC. If you are getting a slow steady drift in one axis only then I'd say that is your Dec axis. The above process will help you to check that. If it is in your RA axis then something is definately wrong.
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