Animator overriding collisions?

Hey everyone, first I'd like to state that I although I've spent a lot of time with unity for the last two years I'm still not very fluent on finding solutions to its quirks :)

I'm making a game where my humanoid player controlled by Animator has a ragdoll setup (the child bones have colliders, rigidbodies and character joints components). The point of this is to have forces added to the collided bone and have a somewhat realistic ragdoll response.w

Now, I've googled a lot before asking this, because apparently this is supposed to work but it doesn't: Everything works fine when I'm triggering the ragdoll reaction, but not so much when doing anything else (when animator is on). When I don't have a rigidbody on the parent, I can't collide with the walls of my scene. Adding a rigidbody just makes him fall through the ground (still not colliding with anything).

The reason for the title is that as soon as I disable Animator everything works fine!

Thanks in advance!