And as i said before, channel activity still persists.
Where did you say that the channel activity still persist?
This is not your father's stale connection of the dialup days
Yet 2004 called, he says he wants its connection back
In all seriousness:
2) Will not disconnect for text sent via scripts, timer, etc. Only text sent by the user hitting enter key.
sounds like an issue with your scripts. Try a clean install?