hi,
the File/Open (as .pat) is pretty obsolete. The worst thing is that any unexpected symbol following #P (user, hidden, etc.) breaks the numbering of objects, hence connections go wild.
Why have not you tried importing via cyclone (you do not even have to convert binary patches to text)?
Krzysztof
marius schebella wrote: ...
pd-patches. simply opening a max patch in pd produces a salad of objects and connections.