I tried the Surfer EQ demo in X2, and I could never get it to work without crashing Sonar. So you seem to be doing better than I was.
However, I think the problem may be related. It worked fine when the plug in wasn't displayed, but as soon as I opened the plug in window, everything would become laggy and unresponsive and Sonar would crash shortly after.
So I suspect there is something going on in the way SurferEQ draws it's UI that Sonar doesn't get along with. I contacted Sound Radix and they didn't know what the problem was.
Shame, as it's a brilliant plug in. If I could get it working in Sonar, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.