Originally, I had wired the system based on the driver documentation for a controller with open-collector signals rather than PNP signals. I had also tried reducing the frequency of the pulses to around 200 Hz after itsmoked's comment, which I thought was safely low enough since the driver was rated for 20 kHz, and I faced the same problems. More @Wikipedia
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