Sonar Platinum has lock up/crashes when using Dimension Pro looped/groove drums

After painstaking hours trying to troubleshoot why several projects kept locking up, my bandmate and I tracked it down to Dimension Pro looped/groove drum patterns. (I'm not sure of exactly what they're called, but it's the Dimension Pro drum sounds that play the built-in sequenced patterns when you hold down a key in the lower octave of the keyboard.)
 
If we had one of those loaded in a project (even if we had just "auditioned" those sounds/patterns without actually having them triggered via midi in a project), then when playing back the project the system experiences various weird "lock up" situations, in which the transport and all other control of Sonar stopped working. There was no way to recover from the problems or exit Sonar gracefully, and we'd have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down Sonar and then restart.
 
We were able to replicate the problem on two different Windows 8.1 systems both using ASIO, with different audio interfaces (Mackie Mixer and M-Audio M-Track Plus) and several different projects. Through process of elimination and numerous restarts of Sonar and some cold re-boots, we tracked it down to the Dimension Pro loop/groove drum patterns. We've had no further problems with "lock ups" or crashes since removing the instances of Dimension Pro that had those patches loaded.
 
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
 
BTW, I've submitted the info above as a bug/problem report, but wanted to post here in case anyone else is experiencing frustrations with this same issue. Hope that's appropriate (I'm a long time Sonar users, but new to posting here).

huh! Just for giggles, tried your scenario, jfochtmann. Yep, the 2nd Dim Pro groove patch I tried playing back, locked Sonar up something fierce. I'm going to have to cold boot, which I haven't had to do in a long while. So I'm ending this post to reboot.

Yup. I reported this problem years ago and the work around according to tech support was to copy the drum samples to Dimension LE and play the loops from there. Never did so I don't know if it works or not. 

I hope Rapture Pro will be better supported than Dimension Pro or Rapture in future. The state they were left in was not good. Cakewalk you now have a clean slate, but you still have yet to fix Z3TA+2 and pro channel plugin issues (which are still for sale).

Confirmed. There are certain loops that appear to contain poison 
 
As to the issue with the Gold Top, one person told me that they had issues with it that went away after re-installing Dimension Pro. That's pretty anecdotal, and only one person...but who knows. That probably won't fix the "poison loop" issue, though.

I can't believe I just found this post and that this problem has been going on for soooooo long. It is with the DRM GROOVES. They freeze SONAR PLATINUM EVERY TIME.
 
If anyone has a new work around, I'd love to hear it.