I just made my own .hud_messages_text for a single player map with my new knowledge of single player mapping. Next I did some scripting to make the messages appear on the player's HUD. Once I compiled it sapien crashed with this:

03.02.15 14:15:54 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
03.02.15 14:15:54 reference function: _write_to_error_file
03.02.15 14:15:54 reference address: 401b13
03.02.15 14:15:54 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
03.02.15 14:15:54 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
03.02.15 14:15:54 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
03.02.15 14:15:54 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
03.02.15 14:15:55 crosshair item 1 for halo3\odst hud\weapon hud interfaces\sniper rifle\sniper rifle references an invalid sequence
03.02.15 14:15:55 crosshair item 1 for halo3\odst hud\weapon hud interfaces\sniper rifle\sniper rifle references an invalid sequence
03.02.15 14:15:55 the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg shield does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
03.02.15 14:15:55 the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg body does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
03.02.15 14:15:56 WARNING: 6 clusters in structure_bsp levels\city-dark have no background sound or sound environment.
03.02.15 14:15:56 local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly
03.02.15 14:15:56 EAX: 0x00000000
03.02.15 14:15:56 EBX: 0xE3940001
03.02.15 14:15:56 ECX: 0x00000000
03.02.15 14:15:56 EDX: 0x00000000
03.02.15 14:15:56 EDI: 0x0018EEB8
03.02.15 14:15:56 ESI: 0x00000000
03.02.15 14:15:56 EBP: 0x0018ED90
03.02.15 14:15:56 ESP: 0x0018ED80
03.02.15 14:15:56 EIP: 0x777D0C42, 83 C4 04 C2 ?????
03.02.15 14:15:56 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\hs\hs_compile.c,#306: tell matt that somebody failed to correctly report a parsing error.

Do you know what I may have done wrong with the scripting? I used: (show_hud_help_text 1) in my startup. And this to in one of my dormants: (hud_set_help_text odst_search)

I'm pretty sure you have this problem fixed already but if not you can post the script here and I or someone else may be able to help you. I am kind of a noob at scripting but enough to know what is happening.