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Well I assume there is still stray art but perhaps it is locked. But why do you have so many stray objects text or otherwise?

You are making it hard on your self if you need to have this text or other objects for possible future use then turn them into symbols which can then be edited at a later date. You use the symbols as library or resource file. This will give you a better, leaner and more productive way of working and you are less likely to have stray points.

But if you are using the Use Artboards option in the save as EPS dialog then the stray points should not be an issue unless the fact that it started in Freehand some how is impacting on the save as eps process.

What you might do is copy the art of each artboard and paste that into a new fresh document with the same number of artboards. I would not however take a shortcut and select all as you will probably copy the offending object(s).

You can also draw a rectangle to the size of the art boards with no stroke or fill and align it to the art boards then select that and the art on the artboards ( including art bleeding off the artboards and then turn those to symbols and save the symbols as a symbol library
and then open those in the new document and place the symbols in the right artboard in the new document. Now you should not have any stray point, objects or anything else.