The problem is in fact in trying to take that value. Since that cell in the workbook is counting the number of times an item is used in a column, it isn't updating until the entire For
loop is complete. Thus I could suppress screen updating for 1 iteration and have it work, but when I had to change multiple sheets, the updating of that value failed (though it did seem to update a few times with many iterations).
The fix for this is quite simple, tell Excel to "refresh" or calculate the values in the formulas you need. So for the above example you would use:
CurrentSheet.Cells(2, 6).Calculate()
SumCount1 = CurrentSheet.Cells(2, 6).value
Now you need to be careful, as this will not cause an cells referenced within that cell to update (if they have formulas as well). If you need to update a bunch of cells you can update a whole sheet by not specifying a cell: .Cells.Calculate
or you could do re-calculate everything with Application.CalculateFull()