Not really, it still freezes, i just left it disabled because you said to try it. The biggest help was reducing frames per batch and keeping cores count to 1. Probably a bug somewhere in there, feels like it it tripping over itself. The nerd in me wants to say it is looking for a variable that was local and is no longer there, so it just keeps waiting for it.... or something of that nature. I've had maxscripts I was working on lock up for this reason in the past.
I should mention i am on a machine with a 72 core machine with a Quadro 5000 and 256GB ram, so that's not the issue.. haha.