I recommend trying out the zniffer technique it is both helpful and terrifying at the same time. Terrifying because the apparent errors which may or may not be actual errors.
Also on the latest MS6 firmware it may not matter whether you paired it via battery first and plugged it in later.. I tried that and it looked like things were still repeating. Still getting wacky chatter on some of the units. Am going to try the Inovelli sensors for some of them.
edit: pairing the Z-Stick and using the PC Controller sw is also helpful because you can eliminate ghost devices that may be persistent.