With Avid's help, think I found the culprit - it looks like a modern variation of an old 2.x bug:
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...Null-CORBA-POA
I followed the instructions in the article above (which is exactly what I used to have to do), using batchrun.exe to create a file, starting the three programs with a 2000ms gap between each, in the following order:
EuConStart
EuControl
MC_Client
Looks like MC_Client falls over unless the other two are fully up and running first. Doesn't affect my main machine, just the (very similar) spare - computers, eh?
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