Hi @hi2gav,
thanks for your feedback and thoughts.
First thing I want to mention: bolt.diy is very new and in a very early development state, what you can see on the version 0.0.6. We still trying to build a good foundation for this project and organize the roadmap etc. for this year.
To your other problems => we would need much more informations about your system, how you installed etc. to investigate that.
If you like I can instead offer you to do a Meeting with me and we take a look at your problems and figure out whats going wrong, as well as try to fix it and get something nice for you out.
You can also take a look at my youtube channel for videos about bolt and there is also one where I build something with Gemini and publish it on github pages. Its uncut and you see the problems I got.