newer egg-palettize program not writing textures

Wondering if any other egg-palettize users out there have/had an issue with the command in versions 1.8.1 - current not writing out the texture palettes?
I file a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/panda3d/+bug/1474147 but wanted to also ask in here in case there may be something I could have been doing incorrectly. :astonished:
With every version past 1.7.2 Panda3D, when I use the command, everything goes as it should, except the writing of the new palettes. It reads everything, copies unchanged textures and writes the new egg files. I just gives an error, ā€œunable to write blah blah textureā€ when conducting the writing of the generated texture palette(s).
Though, with 1.7.2, the egg-palettize.exe works fully as it should. (so I donā€™t think I am doing anything incorrectly, but one never knows. LOL)
Anyhow, if anyone actually utilizes this command and has had a similar issue that they found a cure for, please let me know. Iā€™ve already briefly compared the different source codes, though other than naming convention changes in the more recent versions, I nothing is jumping out at me that has possibly changed. So in that area, I am pretty lost.
Iā€™m in the process of writing a more updated version, in MEL, of what the PandaSE team had created years back. Along with everything they had in theirs, Iā€™m working to add in more command options possibilities and also looking to possibly incorporate these new functions directly into my other updated Egg-exporter program [url]Updated MayaPandaUI Interface - Egg & Bam Exporter for Maya] and create an all-in-one package.
PandaSE teams version http://prntscr.com/7woa7s
My Maya MEL version (so far)http://prntscr.com/7wo9py

Thanks,
~Sean~