Names: Yeah I noticed too. Don't know how to change them though, so nothing I can do at this point.
Sorry the Ninjas don't look as good as some of the other sprites, they were definately the hardest to make. Trying to make a thin man dressed in a tight black suit look good at 32x32 pixels against a light brown background was a much bigger challenge than I anticipated
. Some of the early incarnations of the Ninja were quite startlingly ugly. This is one of the reasons they have glamour in combat- so you can't see them very well. The green knife is from back when they all used bane blades (this is also why their resource cost is relatively high).
About the paralyzation problem- I don't know what the cause is. Does the same thing happen with the user created units of other mods?