Soulcry>
1) When you do a "#bot update", their level become the same as your. Don't worry about them staying blue, I just don't update their consider color.
2) When you do a "#bot inventory list" on your bots, what do you see ? Is the botinventory table created in your database as mentionned on the README (
http://eqoffline.free.fr/README.txt) ?