Yeah, I messed up this echo thingie, just found the bug and fixed it (it was only a single character typo
But hell, back when toyo mentioned this bug I didn't find it, coz I was searching around the say command as he stated not knowing he was meaning messagemode instead. Whatever.
About the #1 bug: I don't see your problem. It works fine for me, I tried and I see the player.mdl. Maybe it's a rune mod that doesn't cooperate with JoeQuake. Yes, I made some changes with the way how these common alias models get send through the server, so errors are acceptable, but maybe not my fault.
On the 3rd, again, what do you mean with this? I guess you're referring for the unsaved configs again. As I already said a hundred times previously, make an autoexec.cfg OR use JoeQuake's config saving features. See the joequake.txt or the features page for more info. Search for cfg_savevars variable.
thx for the bug reports