So Ive run into several phantom bugs with the code using Gamelab, and after 2 hours of debugging and testing I cant get any closer to success, so Im going to switch to using Game Maker for Nameless Island. Which means that I have a lot of work to do over the next 17 hours, but I reckon I can pull it off. It also simplifies some of my existing code quite a bit.

So here is what it looks like now: