I guess am scared if I start to use immed again, I might make a mistake, like somewhere where a bit of tweaking on stack / deleting new stuff mighta fixed. I freeze stack only ever after a save since if nothing else, its a damn good way to actually save undoable history to a file
Most of the stack issues Iv seen is stuff I think I know about, so many years of leaving stacks going hehe..
"Softimage would also start scrambling the already painted weights on other areas by redistributing the smooth influences"
Id say is because he started an envelope stack then went back and modelled some more, destroid point order that something was relying on ?.
Might try immed again, maybe, purely for weights / uvs...... maybe, is a hard sell, am old and stubborn