Skyrim SE: Game is resetting MCM stuff and spawning me in Sleeping Giant Inn.

[Diddles1]

The issue feels like a reference limit save corruption issue but my active reference count is <700k. Temp is less than 400k. Other people stated it is just because i was over or on the 255 ESP plugin limit but i turned some off and the issue persists.

According to SSEdit: "Found 354623 temporary and 251030 persistent loaded references, for a grand total of 605653 loaded references."

I am currently on 253 active ESM + ESP plugins. (Some of those are merge ESPs if that means anything)

I wanted to start my game on The Island mod and played for about 20mins, loaded a save and was teleported to the Sleeping Giant Inn along with all the MCM reset crap. Afterwards i went below 255 esps and did a test run spawning somewhere in Riften, loaded back into that save and the MCM stuff still reset. 

The game CTD as well while loading that but that is a secondary issue i assume is related to the above. If not do let me know.

But as far as i can tell, if the active reference count and the ESM + ESP plugin limit are within acceptable boundaries, i am stumped as to what is causing this corruption issue. Any help would be appreciated.