Plugin Automation Disconnecting

I have been running into this issue lately when using Sonar (currently 2017.06). I'll have a session with some plugin automation here and there... everything is working as expected. I'll save the session and come back to it the next day and suddenly a plugin will have all of it's automation "disconnected" and the plugin automation will not be available from the automation drop down menu on the track (even though the plugin is on, working correctly and read automation is, of course, enabled).
 
In my last Sonar session, I was using the UAD Moog Filter XL plugin and sweeping the cutoff frequency and the plugin bypass. The automation that is there can't be reassigned since the plugin is no longer in the automation drop down menu. To make matters worse, one can't select orphaned automation unless it was the last view of the track before the automation was "disconnected" (so if you changed to volume automation, for example, then you will not be able to select or reassign either orphaned automation in my case).  The only solution is to make a brand new instance of the plugin and redo the automation. BUT, then once the session is saved and reopened, the plugin automation is "disconnected" again!
 
I can potentially do some more testing to see if I can figure out what different plugins this may be happening with, but unfortunately for now, I have deadlines for multiple projects and don't really have the time. This is mostly just me putting out a feeler to see if anyone else is having this issue and if any solutions have been found.
 
Thanks in advance for anyone taking the time to respond! Problem happening with either 2017.06 or 2017.05 on Windows 7 64bit ADK built DAW.