abandon doctrines bug, also not seeing improved chances for spy activities

[aspireunity]

I'm playing 1.6b2, with IC 1.01rev3. If i try to abandon a doctrine that I've started the game with, such as commerce raiding, I get a research bonus for abandoning it. I also can't choose the other optional doctine, sea control, untill I start to re-resaerch the commerce raiding doctine. If i abandon this re-researching I can now choose sea contol. If I finish re- researching the commerce raiding doctrine, I get another research bonus. If I re- abandon it I get another research bonus. I don't know how it's supposed to WAD, but this isn't it. Maybe it's just IC over this unofficial AOD version.
Also, If I remember correctly, when I had a staff memeber that gave me a +5% bonus to steal a blueprint, that 5% was added and displayed before I attempted the theft. I no longer see that bonus, so I'm guessing I'm not getting the bonus, cuz I'm definately not getting any blueprints. Is the bonus supposed to be added before your chances are displayed? Are there any other modifiers to this %. I'd like to throw a coup or 2 eventually, but I don't know if I can with this possible bug. What happens when I throw a coup, how can it be done?
How can I modify the chances for spy activities? I think 5% is too low for most of these things, and for it to be a plausible addition to any strategy it should be up to 10, at least.

 

[aspireunity]

Also, if I might make a suggestion for developers working on another patch, if there are such people. The number of provinces has made combat better in a lot of ways, but at the same time it is waaaay too expensive to build a usefull fort barrier, also, air defense is a lot harder. I'm looking at ai England in 1941 right now with very little aa and no radar. Also very few fighters. Where's the royal air force? Maybe they should have an event to create one, like Germany has? So, maybe it's a simple solution, slash mp and ic costs of aa, forts, infastructure, and maybe radar as well? IDK, I like IC a lot with the new tech tree and map, but the number of provinces makes a lot of funny balancing issues that weren't there before. I hope you guys fix them and perfect this beautiful game. Great work, keep it up.