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Seeing it, dumbfounded, I started experimenting. Apparently anything that moves the face results in similar glitches (Jutting out chin, teeth showing, black eyes, eyeballs all over). Which is pretty much every DMFI animation.
DO NOT LOSE HOPE YET!
When setting the animations to "Looping", or using the >a "animation" command, the previously seen glitch does not happen.