I'm guessing that's a disk buffering issue where SONAR buffered audio for the beginning of the loop and you tricked it by disabling the loop at the last second, you sneaky bastid.

Probably exacerbated by having to buffer up a lot of stereo audio tracks that are muted but still have to be loaded in case you unmute one.
Try increasing playback disk buffer size in preferences and/or archiving some of the muted tracks, and see if it goes away.
Not a Platinum-specific thing in any case. I've run into that in earlier versions.