Issue with maya 2009 and Valve's supplied SMD scripts

[Sonic5039]

Quite recently the scripts valve gave out for maya 2009 (be it behind the most recent version of maya since valve doesn't use it anymore as far as I know), have worked quite well for my needs. Though now it appears if I load any of these plug-ins that valve gave with Source SDK appear to crash Maya 2009. Previously only 1 of the 3 plug-ins Vmaster.mll had stopped loading properly. Now the other 2 when told to load appear to crash Maya with a fatal error, no crash dumps that I see or any message box saying it had a fatal crash. It just stops responding after a bit, these plug-ins being named "vsmdIO.mll" and "vstUtils.mll".

In previous times Praill's SMD export scripts from maya 4.5 and such have been odd in the sense they have not worked for me in the past what-so-ever, even if it were just a plain textured cube.

Does anyone by chance know a fix for the Valve supplied plug-in scripts, as I'd prefer not to have to switch modeling programs after using Maya for a while.

Thanks in advance,
Sonic5039