BL set-up help

[piecesnparts]

You know, Ive read some bad things about the quality of maxamps LIPO's. But none even close to the little oops I ran into.
When I received my battery pack I went ahead an charged It per the instructions. Set up my MM esc with the required info and ran the truck for about 5 min. Hence the Holy #$%@!!! Post, Then I ran it the next day and after 3 min. it stopped. After checking the truck to ensure It wasn't a connection that I had made. I checked the battery only to find out that a tab on one of the cells was burned off. WTF was my first reaction. Has anyone had this problem before? And before you ask I wasn't running it hard, and there were no jumps, or hard starts on high traction surfaces, involved on either of the short runs. Oh and what kind of transmitter/receiver recomendations do you all have.