Hi, has been your problem solved?
I have the same issue. I didnt clicked the dont click me menu and I use my 550D for ages with ML, and I'm not sure its an issue with ML, but 3 days ago my cam went crazy. Exactly the same issues you wrote.
Put your camera in M mode, and then press "menu" to get into the canon menu.
Go into the spanner with 3 dots, you should see a menu called "Custom Functions (C.Fn)".
In there, go to number 8, and make sure C.FnIII: Autofocus/Drive Mirror lockup is set to 0 (disabled).
Also check those other custom functions, something might have changed.
Originally they all start on 0.