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Certainly can be a frustrating experience, especially if the mount suffers some backlash when doing a calibration routine.
Bad pixel maps will assist with the annoying auto star selection on hot pixels.
You cant select the star during the calibration routines as far as I know, it selects the best star it thinks has the right brightness level to keep track of. You can though select a star when you Locate, then Track.
Also you dont have to calibrate ao and drive on a star in your target fov; you can do this away from the target fov with a suited nice bright star, then slew back frame, locate then track.
With my VC200L at f/9 and the 583, I've always had issues with 1x1 binning, 2x2 binning works well with the AO tracking. Havent quite sorted that one out yet, but might be something to do with star size in guiders fov and flux.
There's a few perks alright with Maxim software and control; and takes a bit of patience and persistence, but once you get it working its a fab tool.
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