Do you have any idea if either FWsim or Finale 3D were implicated in any of the “all at once” firing errors (some may say enhancement?) that affected e.g. San Diego 2012 or Oban 2011 displays ?

Is there any protection against this kind of problem in FireShow ?

Someone I know in that industry described the San Diego event as being the result of playback scrubbing; by either dragging or accidentally clicking somewhere on the timeline. Obviously heard second hand, but its a close community so I generally trust it - Wikipedia says it was a corrupted file