Could be the same problem that was ironed out in this thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.tcl/3giA0OCXsoI
However, I think there's no readily available up-to-date vanillawish.
You discovered the workaround yourself: Add something to the script so that a slightly different bytecode is generated that is then transformed into a different A85 encoding that doesn't trigger the bug.
-- Stephan