I took care of the motor running hot on system start already with the pull-up resistor.
I believe the pull-up resistor is an overall better solution because it saves the motor even when the Pi is shutdown but still connected to power.
This time I believe it was when the focus driver started with the default configuration, which for me I noted was to engage to motor on the Revision 1 board. As seen here. www.indilib.org/forum/focusers-filter-wh...html?start=264#72252
I didn't catch it this time because I assumed it was all saved and loaded correctly. But I do recall my preset positions were empty. So I'm quite certain that is what happened.