Alright I finally made the point to try and switch over my machines to MM v2+ with bfgminer again and it still is such a PITA. I still can't get it to reliably start or restart my workers without failing to start or restarting infinitely due to low hash. This is an issue I have had on all three of my machines no matter how or when I try and use bfgminer. Any ideas or how I can help you nwoolls, I really want to use anything newer than 1.3.5 lol but bfgminer is such a crapshoot with my machines (two are win 7, the other 8.1) I have been forced to stick with the now ancient version of MM.
Edit: As I finally was pissed off enough to write that it automagically started to work and actually mine. The other main issue I am seeing is once it finally decides to mine it works fine. It is only at startup and when switching coins, making MM almost useless in a multi mine perspective that it fails over and over again.