RigidBody Script Conflict

Hello everyone, I've come across a point in my scripting, where I am trying to reset the position of a rigidbody, but another script seems to be interfering with it (and I don't see why).

Short description of my setup: I've got a bone with a animation that is moving meshes attached to a parent mesh (which is attached to the bone) with a rigidbody.

Description of my problem: My script to reset the animated bone works fine // And the script to reset the rigidbody works just as expected on its own. However, when both the bone script and rigidbody script are active at the same time, the rigidbody reset fails (the rigidbody velocity and angular rotation are stopped, but the rotation is frozen in place (is not set back to its original value). And I can't figure out why. Any ideas are appreciated.

Bone Script:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class PlatformBoneController : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public Animator animator;
     public PlayerHealth playerHealth;
     public Vector3 startingLocation;
     public Vector3 startingRotation;
     public float animationSpeed;
 
 
     //starting of animation controlled by TriggerPlatformAnimation trigger.
 
     void Awake ()
     {
         animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
         playerHealth = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").GetComponent<PlayerHealth>();
         startingLocation = transform.position;
         startingRotation = transform.rotation.eulerAngles;
         animator.speed = animationSpeed;
 
     }
 
     void Update ()
     {
         ResetPlatform();
     }
 
 
 
     void ResetPlatform ()
     {
         if (playerHealth.isDead == true)
         {
             //Debug.Log("The player has died");
             animator.SetBool ("isStationary", true); //stop animation in place. 
             transform.position = startingLocation;
             transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler (startingRotation); //should now be back in position, ready to be triggered again. 
 
 
         }
     }
 
 
 
 }

RigidbodyScript:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class PlatformRigidBodyController : MonoBehaviour {
     //public Rigidbody platformRigidbody;
     public PlayerHealth playerHealth;
     public Vector3 startingLocation;
     public Quaternion startingRotation;
 
 
     void Awake ()
     {
         //Debug.Log ("this has been awakened");
         //platformRigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
         playerHealth = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").GetComponent<PlayerHealth>();
         startingLocation = rigidbody.position;
         startingRotation = rigidbody.rotation;
     }
 
 
 
     void Update ()
     {
         ResetRigidBodyPosition ();
     }
 
 
 
     void ResetRigidBodyPosition ()
     {
         if (playerHealth.isDead == true)
         {
             Debug.Log ("resetting rigidbody");
             rigidbody.velocity = Vector3.zero;
             rigidbody.angularVelocity = Vector3.zero;
             rigidbody.position = startingLocation;
             rigidbody.rotation = startingRotation;
         }
     }
 
 
 }