Hm, I don't know if !pause is enough to make it load the module at that point. Does it ever fail if you take the !reloadmodule out and manually execute them as two separate commands from lsxcommand?

I know this isn't a viable solution, but if it is the !reloadmodule problem, you may have to wait for the next release of litestep. (or use *NetLoadModule and live with the extra resources) And if it isn't, well then I probably have to fix something.