hi josef,
Thanks for your suggestion. I read on the autodesk forum that renaming the ENU folder and let Max rebuild the folder strucure again solves the curve editor problem. Issue with this is that a lot of plugins and scripts stopped working, so I have been restoring them almost 1 by 1 until most of them are working again (and checking each time if the curve editor opened fine) Took me a few hours though :-)
Next time I'll give your suggestion a try first
Menno