can you provide the scene to test or a script to recreate the problem from scratch? i have a hunch this might have to do with standalone mode being a completely different environment from GUI mode, due to the fact that no userPrefs or other key initialization scripts are run. you may want to try out pymel for this because it goes to great lengths to ensure that the standalone environment is the same as the GUI environment. if you send me a scene i can test for you.
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