Hi Bobby,
I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing these difficulties. Would you mind performing a quick test using Forest Tools and exporting all distributed geometry to instances? You can find it under Utilities - More... - Forest Tools. This way, you can check whether the problem occurs during Forest object conversion or not.
Thanks in advance for any further comments on this issue you can share with us/our user community (in case some users will run into similar troubles).
Best regards,