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I may be very wrong, but...

...from the days I dabbled with ren'py I remember a variable which needs to survive a save needs a special declaration. Maybe maxlovesanne is not declared correctly or something.

Or maybe we just need wax puppets and hot needles to make it work

No, I did the proper declaration, so wasn't that. I think might have been some load/save issues since I upgraded to a new Ren'Py version just recently! I'm helping the main renpy coder to test the new changes when I do the game betas, so everyone benefits from it (he gets bugs reported sooner, I get them fixed faster, and new features are available to players).

Something more to try your Voodoo on:
Week 1, playing as Max. Go Sat. to the party with Isa and Anne, then Sunday there is the scene where the rest of the guys goes running, and Max stays home. However, it seems as if all three slots of the day are skipped, not only the morning slot. I do not get any stat update.

Ah no that's normal, always worked like that: the day skips based on the part of the day the event starts. Sucks a bit but I can't know for every scene what happens exactly, in some the writing says stuff like "the evening came home and..." so decided to go this way. There is plenty of time to raise stats though

Or maybe we just need wax puppets and hot needles to make it work

If it would placate the Ghost in the Machine, I would say go for it

More on topic.
Did a fresh start with Max, and I can confirm you fixed the bug where if you chose Roxanne as the partner for the Prisoner's Dilemma, Anne's dialogue runs properly.

Even better? The Max and Anne romance works fine (at least through Spring Break).

Added:
I can confirm the romance works fine all the way to the end game (With the proper stats, of course)

One slight typo:
When Max and Anne consummates their attraction, (Week 16, Saturday) Max says: "Look we're not getting married...I'm afraid you're not getting rid of my that easily."

That last 'my' should be a 'me'.

Thanks for the typo. If the Spring Break works, I'm confident that even the ending works (with the right stats of course). We'll save the voodoo rites for another time. Maybe for SOTW

What happens if I skip an event? It seems like I skip the day in this case too...

Yes, but at least you get +5 Energy I had to do this way because even with the skip, there's the chance that the texts could say "I decided to go sleep the whole afternoon, then I woke up just in time for dinner".
Not writer's fault, is because I did all the texts early and the gameplay/scheduler later. Anyway, I'm not aiming the game to be realistic of course!

One more bug:

game/scenes2_edit.rpy 5300
Event with Isa, after she throws out Chad. There is only a single choice: "offer to stay with her tonight". If you can call it choice (That is new in 0.9.1, been through this path before and had two options.)

Edit: You need a save?

Edit2: game/scenes2_edit.rpy 6866
The speaker is shown as "???", but in the scene before Prof Tasque called him Marvin.

Ahh I see, no don't need savegame, is because the other two choices have as conditions >50 and <50 so you have exactly 50 relationship with Isabella, that's why you don't see the other options. Can solve it by changing the first to >=50 thanks