Another experiment, this time with Biscuits' Superstar dress on the Star figure. I tried to change the dynamic control settings, but haven't figured out how to stiffen the material of the dress.  I had some trouble with a couple medium length, straight hairs, also. I tried your method of fluffing the strands first, but the hair strands were intersecting badly and the script choked. I'm sure there's some setting that I haven't discovered that will improve the performance.