Yes, your second pdf describes what I was talking about. Thanks for putting it together.
But I am not going to mark this as the correct answer because it is a painful workaround that we are not supposed to go through.
Mentor should now that this is not working and that the workaround is not an acceptable solution.
My Layout crashes almost every time when I open the 3d view with or without a file opened.
Fatal run-time error. Press OK to close the program.
Reboot, reinstall... doesn't help at all.
Support is silent for two days now after the initial response.