ActiveX COM issue in new LabVIEW instance

I have a rather peculiar problem I'm running into with using a COM library from a company to read proprietary binary files. I'm not very familiar with this type of Labview programming, I just followed their examples and experimented, a lot. I have talked for hours with the software engineer at the company who provides the "FSCOM Server" as they call it (Orbit F/R) and he can't figure out what is going on either. His expertise is not in Labview, but in text-based languages (I had to explain how to wire things in Labview over the phone).
I use this FSCOM to read the contents of antenna pattern files stored in a binary format (frustrating). Everything works fine and as expected after weeks of experimenting and direction from Orbit. The problem is when I shut down Labview completely and open the code in a brand new instance, I run it on a data file and It errors out with "The server threw an exception." The weird part is nothing has changed from when it worked 30 seconds ago when I was programming it before I shut down Labview. The way to get it working again? Delete just 1 wire somewhere, anywhere then re-wire it. Now it works, everytime.
Does anyone that knows COM/ActiveX have any idea how I can get this to work so I can make it an executable to distribute to other workstations?
PS. It currently won't run in executable form, I've tried.
Jamie
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FileSystemCOM_Server_1.x.zip ‏4115 KB
folder.zip ‏502 KB
Block Diagram.png ‏286 KB

Thank you for the tips, like I said I'm new to ActiveX objects so it's good to know how to properly handle them. I was using the attached code as my example on how to use their COM server so anymore information on how to use them or if they were not following a "best practice" is welcome.
However, I don't think the closing references out of order explains this problem because when the code works, as in when I delete a wire and re-wire it, it works perfectly.
If I open it in a fresh Labview, it won't get past case structure "4" (Read Azimuth / Elevation Angles) as in it doesn't seem to successfully read the data file as that is the first bit that looks inside the actual file. This made me think its a file/COM server issue which is why I spent over an hour on the phone yesterday with the developer of this COM server and he actually re-created this problem. Sadly he couldn't figure out why it would work if you just played with the wires a bit first.
So this is why I'm here to see if there is anything blatently wrong with how I'm doing this according to Labview standards and not MatLab or some other languages' standards. I'm hoping that whenever you or someone else gets a minute to try my .vi's they will run into the same problem and can maybe direct from there.
It is a strange thing to have working code, but only if you change it first.
Also I know this would be a lot cleaner if the case structures were subvi's instead but I tried that when I first started programming this and couldn't get the reference of the COM Server to read out/read in correctly from on subvi to the next. I wired it up like I do any other vi and like so many NI drivers are out there, but it wouldn't work with this COM server and I just had to get it working so I moved on. I may revist the subvi aspect later after its built and working for everyone and just make it an update later to clean up the code a bit.
Jamie
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FSCOM Example - BD.png ‏67 KB

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