So turns out the fix for the trick bug was just removing the trick hooks out of the AnimaL script entirely. I made sure to mention this in the AnimaL script packaged with the .wad file.
Along with that, I finally stopped beating around the bush and re-rendered the frames with a changed texture instead of trying to be fancy with using other applications to set that up. There's much less coloring issues and the color itself looks much cleaner.
