First off, you do have a great detector. You need to do some air testing and find the point at which it will knock out a pull tab. If this does not agree with what your disc dial indicates, loosen the set screw and set the knob so that it does. On mine, pull tabs are knocked out just shy of zinc penny. This setting on mine will get all the pull tabs. No bear in mind that does not mean the detector will be silent when it hits some. You will hear pops and clicks as they may be partially discriminated. No big deal, just slow down the swing and pick the coins right out of the trash.
One more thing, when you have the pulltabs discriminated out, make sure you can still get a zinc penny.
By rereading your post, I don't believe you have your detector set up right. When you say it will not knock out tabs, where is your disc. set at?