Once again, you guys have proven what a valuable resource this forum is. As mentioned, I recently noticed the clicking noise when I compressed the forks by pushing down while holding the front brake. I can't blame the factory in my case. I got the forks back from Nick about a month ago and installed them per the manual. I don't know if I had that problem then, but didn't notice it. Recently, I decided to slide the forks up a bit to see how I liked a bit quicker steering. In both cases, I believe that I followed the manual and did use torque wrenches, 1/2 drive clicker on the axle and 3/8 bar type on the fork triples. In any case, today after reading this thread, I decided to start over, so removed the front wheel, slid the forks back to the original position, tightened the lower clamp bolts first per the manual, then the top clamp bolts, torqueing them all. Then installed the wheel and axle, stroking the forks before torqueing the axle, per the manual's instructions, then buttoned it all up. Guess what, no more clicking! ;D
So, in spite of my recollection that I did it all correctly, I must have done something not quite right the last time. In any case, it is golden right now. Thanks a bunch!