Can't set transform.position AND constantforce.force?

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I’m working on a physics based marble maze/puzzle game. When a “puzzle” is solved the “marble” gameobject falls out of the playing field and it triggers a trigger with the following OnTriggerExit:

//Kill the current puzzle, load the next one, and reset the marble.
			gameManager.GetComponent<LevelsManager> ().DestroyPuzzle ();
			marble.GetComponent<ConstantForce> ().force = Vector3.zero;
			gameManager.GetComponent<LevelsManager> ().LoadPuzzle ();
			Destroy (marble);
			marble = Instantiate(Resources.Load ("Prefabs/Marble", typeof (GameObject))) as GameObject;
			// Rename the marble, move it to the StartMarker, and turn on its local gravity.
			marble.name = "Marble";
			string puzzleName = "Puzzle_" + gameManager.GetComponent<LevelsManager> ().StageCurrent.ToString ();
			GameObject puzzlez = GameObject.Find(puzzleName);
			float marbleScale = puzzlez.GetComponent<PuzzleProperties>().marbleScale;
			marble.transform.localScale = new Vector3 (marbleScale, marbleScale, marbleScale);
			marble.transform.position = GameObject.Find ("StartMarker").transform.position;
			marble.GetComponent<ConstantForce> ().force = marbleForce;

The trouble is marble.transform.position AND marble.GetComponent ().force don’t both set.
If I leave the code as you see it above; ConstantForce.force sets properly but the marble doesn’t translate to the StartMarker position.
If I add a superfluous marble = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag (“Player”); the position is set properly but the trigger gameobject that holds this script loses the marble reference and the ConstantForce.force doesn’t trigger.

This is particularly weird as I also have a reset function that uses the same commands that works every time.

public void ResetPuzzle ()
	{
		marble = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("Player");
		marble.GetComponent<ConstantForce> ().force = Vector3.zero;
		gameManager.GetComponent<LevelsManager> ().DestroyPuzzle ();
		gameManager.GetComponent<LevelsManager> ().LoadPuzzle ();
		marble.transform.position = GameObject.Find ("StartMarker").transform.position;
		marble.GetComponent<ConstantForce>().force = marbleForce;
	}

I honestly baffled. Any ideas?
I might be able to call my reset function but that could get messy. :confused:

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I asked a friend and it turns out that the script was running too fast and/or the startmarker search was happening before or at the same time of the load. So it wasn’t getting caught. Closing.