How to reload world state without explosions

I've tried the simple method of simply recording every bodies torque, 
force, orientation,pos, velocity, ang velocity
and simply using setPosition, set LinearVelocity etc... to reset these, 
but doing this causes ODE to explode,
What is the best way to load an arbitrary world state?
-Salik
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