Everything works for me in Max 2012, using the alpha 003.5 build posted. While painfully slow in the viewport, I do see the effect of Orientation & Spin & Selection when enabled. Also I didn’t have any issues with the lists like Bobo mentioned …
I downloaded a fresh copy of the example file, opened it, and jumped to frame 25 and got this:
The behavior you describe (as well as the missing Ember Texmap) sounds like you aren’t using the 3.5 build. Double check the plugin.ini and the folder its point at to make sure its actually the build I posted. You should delete the old version completely before extracting the new one (maybe the overwrite didn’t work?).