Missing and HITME ref in the merged plugin

[hercules6969]

I have been experiencing that merging plugins have sometime created HITME references: lately, a merge was overwrinting 00000001 and 00000002 with a ref that had nothing in common (REFR placed objects instead of a STAT in skyrim.esm)

The plugin from which this reference was merged is correct

Any idea why the reference is 00000002 instead of xx000002 with xx my merge n°?
Sometime, the merged plugin misses records that were supposed to be merged, they just are not there.
could it be because new ESPFE start at xx000000 instead of xx000800 or because some plugins inject records into another master?

I remember using xedit 4.1.5f do to the same manually (add master, inject record into master, deep copy with owerwrite), and when the plugin was injecting records into update.esm for instance, all the following records were not added to the merged plugin and the process skipped to the next reference

I'm using Skyrim 1.6.1170 and latest Zedit 0.6.7 and xEdit 4.1.5f
plugin I'm trying to merge
"filename": "fta_TES5ManikinsPatchMoonpath.esp",
"filename": "JRMoonpathtoElsweyrPatch.esp",
"filename": "JRMoonpathBrumaPatch.esp",
"filename": "Moonpatch.esp",
"filename": "Even More LOTD Crates - Moonpath.esp",
"filename": "SFCO3-Addons - Moonpath to Elsweyr Patch.esp",
"filename": "Moonpath Navmesh Fix.esp",
"filename": "Parallax TXST Fixes - Moonpath Navmesh Fix.esp",
"filename": "Moonpath to Elsweyr Zahilisk.esp",
"filename": "KRI_Moonpath_ArtifactImmersionPatch.esp",
"filename": "Moonpath Music, Weather and Other Fixes - JRMoonpathBrumaPatch.esp",
"filename": "Moonpath Music, Weather and Other Fixes - Hyena Replacer Patch.esp",
"filename": "Moonpath Blacksmith Forge Water Fix.esp",
"filename": "Parallax TXST Fixes - Moonpath Music, Weather and Other Fixes.esp",
"filename": "Parallax TXST Fixes - moonpath.esp",

[kilaya42-maker]

I am also about to give up on zMerge, and just use the old xEdit script. Every time I try to merge plugins I get HITME errors, sometimes in numbers that are impossible to correct by hand (I was able to get a couple merge plugins working by manually fixing a few of them, but it just isn't feasible to do most of the time). Opening the files in Creation Kit also did nothing to fix the problem- Also, and probably unrelated, zMerge always creates file versions 1.70, but the current is 1.71.