Lamp Off Won't Stay Off

I have a brand new Full Boar, with 40 brand new moving heads, and I'm getting some weird business happening with my control, most specifically Lamp Off commands.
The last three times I've tried to lamp off my arc units after a show, they have lamped off correctly, then lamped right back on after I cleared the programmer. They were definite lamp offs, not just closed shutters/dousers. First I Pig-Released all cues. Then I would lamp off a group, wait 10 or more seconds, clear the programmer, and they would pop right back on. This would happen regardless of lamp/fixture type.
Tonight I tried it 5 or 6 times with the same results, then rebooted the desk.
Same problem, but now they wouldn't lamp off at all. Then I lost all control of the fixtures for a couple of minutes, then the faders with intensity would work but I couldn't grab anything in the programmer (the values would change on the encoders, but the fixtures didn't respond), then the programmer came back online. But I still couldn't lamp off fixtures. During this time I opened the launched processes window a number of times, and all processes appeared to be running normally.
I rebooted the desk a second time, and everything was back to normal. I was able to lamp off the fixtures without issue, and they stayed lamped off.
Again, this has happened three shows in a row, so it appears to be a regularly occurring issue and not just a one time fluke. I was afraid I had perhaps somehow recorded a lamp on command into a cue, but I had released all cues just prior each time, and I'm not sure even how that would be possible with the Hog's control interface.
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    Hmm, you know I very well could have had fade changes on. I will have to check that out.
    At any rate, the software is v3.0.3, and the offending fixtures are all Martin (Mac III, 2K Wash, 700 Wash, 700 Profile). Again, this is an intermittent issue, and I haven't had trouble with it before recently, so I think we can safely rule out fixture setting. Data is split between three universes sent 250' via standard 5-pin XLR to Fleenor DMX distro boxes, then to the fixtures via 5 separate home runs.
    Brad, I had just read your PLSN article about making smooth live adjustments during a show using (I had to guess, your article being as always frustratingly console agnostic) fade changes in the programmer, which I don't typically have enabled. So there is a very good chance that was on. Doesn't explain the other, more serious loss of output problem, but that only happened the once and could be more of a fluke.
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    Hmm, you know I very well could have had fade changes on. I will have to check that out.
    At any rate, the software is v3.0.3, and the offending fixtures are all Martin (Mac III, 2K Wash, 700 Wash, 700 Profile). Again, this is an intermittent issue, and I haven't had trouble with it before recently, so I think we can safely rule out fixture setting. Data is split between three universes sent 250' via standard 5-pin XLR to Fleenor DMX distro boxes, then to the fixtures via 5 separate home runs.
    Brad, I had just read your PLSN article about making smooth live adjustments during a show using (I had to guess, your article being as always frustratingly console agnostic) fade changes in the programmer, which I don't typically have enabled. So there is a very good chance that was on. Doesn't explain the other, more serious loss of output problem, but that only happened the once and could be more of a fluke.
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