I see Spyder Addons in that rpt. Is it up-to-date? I had to remove the civ interaction module because it was causing this exact issue when other errors were already present. I *think* Spyder may have fixed the error I'm referring to (author is not a value) with the newest version but I'm not sure.

I also saw this same bahavior on another person's mission that used his civ interaction module along with TFAR and ACE. At the time, I believe it was ACE that had this error and when combined with Spyder Addons, it was causing the initialization to fail periodically and groups to not spawn.

I have a feeling once you remove these dependencies you will fix this. Then add them back one by one until you reach a point where it's relatively feature complete but it doesn't break again.