Well, things are looking up. Most of the issues I've had here appear to be the result of a corrupted file. Strange but true... I guess that's something to think about for future cases of this!
One question I'm hoping someone might be able to answer before I stumble upon it... Scalos seems to not like MCP. If MCP is enabled in my startup-sequence, Scalos will simply freeze. I've traced it to MCP by commenting out all programs I've added to the startup-sequence as well as taking WBstartup out of the picture and then bringing things back bit by bit.
Thanks.