Trouble with TWRP on L720-T... Burned twice now...

Is anyone else having trouble getting TWRP Recovery to work right? I have literally tried everything with both the L720 models I have owned and I get screwed by TWRP every time... I have the L720-T model right now Running 5.0.1 and both a 64GB and 16GB SD Card. TWRP won't write crap to the 64GB Sandisk SD card... and when I use the 16GB Patriot SD Card, I can write a backup to it, but that's about all I can do...

When I reboot into recovery trying to restore from the backup I have created, the stupid thing just sits there for 15-20 minutes trying to verify the MD5. Finally after that 15-20 minute period, the stupid thing crashes and reboots... I really love TWRP and it worked amazing with my Droid Razr Maxx, but now it appears to be a total waste of space and time... What the crap..... Is anyone else having issues or have any guidance?

I have tried multiple TWRP versions...
2.5.0.0
2.7.0.0 (current)
2.8.7.0

Rooted with....
I should also note that I used KingRoot to root [a crazy Japanese rooting .apk because it was the only one that would work as all other filed for the FreedomPop Firmware, and I actually like it a lot bt dubs because it actually blocks auto start stuff 100% unlike most root tools that say they do, only for you to see it running in the Application Manager, it gives no fukks what the process system or not and says no :) ]

SD Fix as follows...
I downloaded a program to fix the write permissions, but with my 64GB SD It never would write to sd, so I even went so far as to manually change the platform.xml file myself in root->system->etc->Permissions->platform.xml to change "WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" to contain sdcard_rw, sdcard_r and media_rw as well as change "WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE" to contain sdcard_rw and media_rw

I can't do a custom ROM, because FreedomPop just doesn't work as good on any rom other than theirs.

If anyone can help me out, I would love you forever, or if someone can point me away from TWRP with something that works and is easy to backup and restore with, then that works also... I am just tired to getting BURNED by TWRP... I Know Titanium is an option, but I would like something that basically backs it up as a snapshot so that there is no setup crap to deal with later, I can just restore on the go and I am good.