Selenium+chromedriver failing on DOM mutation

I'm new to Selenium, and I'm having issues with a login test case when using chromedriver. For this webpage, we have a DOM mutation that hides the login form initially.

If I'm using FirefoxDriver or SafariDriver, this test case works perfectly fine. However, it has issues with ChromeDriver. I've tested other sites with ChromeDriver, and it works, so I don't believe it's an issue with my ChromeDriver setup.

Initially, I tried to write this testcase by having the driver wait until the login element was visible:

WebElement element = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("form.loginForm")));

The test case errors out with "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: bad inspector message".

I've tried downgrading to Selenium 2.45 to see if the results differ. They don't.

I even tried Thread.sleep(), and then driver.findElement(), and I still get the same error. Any kind of element finding, whether by id, cssSelector, xpath, and className, will yield the same error.

After banging my head on this for 2 days, I decide to consult the wonderful crowd here at StackOverflow for suggestions. The versions of my Chrome, ChromeDriver, and Selenium are listed below. Thank you!

Chrome: Version 43.0.2357.134 (64-bit) Chromedriver: 2.16 Seleium: tried 2.45.0 and 2.46.0