all I can do is lol!

Welcome to the hell that is MAYA my friend! I get that almost every time I open a scene file now, and if you turn on stack tracing and line numbers it will probably always be the same liine number. For me it's error parsing arguments line 762 every time!

The file opens in wireframe and the grid and other preferences are messed up and the only way to fix it is to blow away the maya folder or userprefs and regenerate a fresh one!

(1) The other problems I get consistantly are the screen will stop updating and the outliner and channel box will go blank and I have to close and reopen maya.

(2) Maya will crash when you try to delete history

(3) Material nodes will appear in the outliner for every material in your scene and you cannot remove them! If you delete the node the material is also deleted. Every new material shows up in the outliner. The list can grow so large that the outliner is impossible to use as it becomes pages and pages of stuff and you can't turn it off!

Once again the only solution is to delete the maya folder and rebuild all the preferences.

(4) just recently I have had a couple cases of Maya saving files and then I go to open them up and they are corrupted and all the autosaves and increment saves will also be corrupted. I had over 40 backup copies of a job I spent days on and every one was corrupted and so I lost all my work!

I got fed up and started running the visual studio debugger and keeping all the crash dumps. I called autodesk support and have filed numerous tickets and for the longest time they just denied there was a problem or it was something I was doing wrong!

Well I am here to tell you I am a senior systems engineer and have used computers for over 30 years. I use dozens of appliation as complicated or more so then Maya but only Maya has all kinds of stability issues. I run 4 machines, they have different hals, hardware, and software and all 4 have the same issues with Maya.

I used Maya since version 1.0 and I had no major issues until the 2010 release. Ever since 2010 it's been nightmare to point where I look forward to using Maya as much as I would look forward to having a tooth extracted anally without anesthetic!