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I am relieved to see that I am not the only one this is happening to. It has been happening for a very long time, to me, and in a wide variety of projects, but here is what I did last week when it occurred most recently: I had a boxed object disintegrate function set up, with two copies (done with Shft-move of the original). All IPAS settings were similar, except for the Random Seed #. Everything was working fine and tested in the keyframer. I decided that I need a mask to block some stray particles, so I went to the editor, selected the front viewport, then to the shaper with 3D display on. I made my mask, a quad with a hole in it. Then to the editor and brought the mask in with no lofting. Placed the mask, adjusted the atributes (matte object, no shadows). Then on the the keyframer to try another test and that is when all 3 disintegrates went off. Hope this helps.