1. The advisors usually don't talk. (Though there have been errors reported about the male advisor portrait having the female "Victoria"'s voice.) That message that keeps coming up is an error and I read somewhere that it is fixed for the next version.

3. Prom's cities are included but there was an error with the mod switcher and don't appear without personal editting.

4. There should be 4 turns per year if the script is active.