I will see what I can do about moving some of that stuff out of the starting script and put it in either the start.g or a macro.
I do have Zhop enabled and the layer counts seem to work fine for every other layer, just not the first layer. It goes from layer 0 to layer 8 once it is done the first one. And then it is off by 8 layers for the rest of the print.
@3dML
I have run some test where I stripped out all of the comments, and in the case where there are no comments DWC didn't find any layers. I even did a test where I removed all the comments except for the layer comments and yielded the same result. But I haven't tried only removing the layer comments.