Hi,
while importing Max patches with cyclone I recently was again hit by the "counter" nameclash: I actually wanted cyclone's counter, but what I did get was the MarkEx counter, which I had totally forgotten about and of course, because of this Gem was the last library I disabled from .pdrc to find out where the wrong counter originated.
So I have a feature request: I would suggest to remove [counter] from the default Gem build.
It is not specific to Gem at all, not used in any help files, not compatible with the Max [counter] and there already are at least 4 other [counter] objects.
Ciao