Pahlava semi-tech questions

Hi!
I have a few questions I got when playing my Pahlava campaign. Some of these questions are not purely technical and some are not purely EB related though. I am playing EB 0.8 v1.a with all fixes btw.
1. First of all I just don;t get it why some settlements around modern Israel like Palmyria and some settlements in Anatolia are so difficult in terms of Public order even when their populations measure below 500!!!!!! I would really appreciate if some of you download and load my game to see what I mean and recommend something - http://uploaded.to/?id=56li7z
2. I don't understnad how public order works in RTW: that is graphically frequently I would see more benefits in the POSITIVE section than the negative, and yet order might be way below 70%. Why?
3. I don't get at all why I see different numbers as far as number of casulties and killed on both sides in different places: on the battle map it would say one thing, then on the statistics right after battle it would say another thing, and when finally it loads back to strategic map and I review my army - I would see yet another numbers! Any ideas?
4. Can anyone please explain how armor/defence bonus works with hit points and attck (both mele and missile) or provide a link to a page where it is clearly explained? I mean I would like to know statistically what difference would it make to have 4 missile attack vs 6 for example?
5. And finally - I wanted to improve my geme exeprience by applying some cheats - not to cheat of course, but to offset the effects of infrequent CTDs, and very poor performnace of auto_win (I play better than that quite often... not to mention it lets the enemy general run away - I don't :)), as well as try to compensate for rediculous at times strategic AI (Rome and Epioros would establish client kingdoms almost every turn for 20+ turns in a row, even though originally Rome had more than enough armies to completely take Sicily from Epeiros). So.... my question is why only very few console commands work? process_rq, kill_faction, and many others do not work at all - they are not recognized? Is there supposed to be a special way to turn them on?
Thanks.
George