Indeed, it was a bug with the old version of ABP. Not sure why the update passed me though...
Thanks for the help!

@xorunison said:

This is a smaller but somewhat annoying problem. The situation is this:

I have a few Plug-Ins which allow the user to switch between different working modes. To do so each Plug-In with its own button does 2 things:
1: Change the current style (between my predefined styles Construction and Display)
2: Turn on/off certain layers

This sounds like a perfect job for scenepages.

One for display, one for work. Each has their own styles set, and each has their own set of off layers, and on layers.

The button(s) could simply switch between the pages (if you did not want to waste the space for page tabs.)

The scenes could be preset into a template model.

I was wondering if there was a way to do it without going through all parent origins as I feared that might become very complicated, I didn't think about doing it like that (recurse) though. Your solution is right on the spot! Also I didn't knew about the grep method yet, so thanks for that as well.

The OpenGL settings unfortunately didn't really help. Just as I figured, a style change might be the best thing available currently. I whipped up some styles for my main template and a few plugins that switch between a normal display mode and some construction modes, that's gonna have to do I guess.