[Suicide Junkie]

To you modders: Its great that you want to improve the game by modding, but how about we get the unmodded game fixed first. Had your energies been devoted to this, by your own modding but mostly by contacting Aaron and pointing out the flaws, I wouldn't be writing this.

"Had your energies been devoted to this,"
In fact they WERE. If you don't like something, change it! We took the original game, and fixed, in our own ways, the things we didn't like.
Not everybody has the same vision of "improvement", and the truly ultimate mod is the one you make yourself.

Massive mounted Wave Motion guns vs. mine warheads III

That is a very good point, and to my knowledge, it hasn't been brought up by anyone else.
Good job, send in the report, and beware the PBW opponents using it against you until the next patch.

The Kamikaze ships were all cruisers with primary order "ram", secondary "point blank" (they all had point defense weapons, so the point blank order seemed reasonable at the time).

Is it possible that they were trying to attack the missiles being fired at you? If your targetting rules include "seekers @ us" or "Seekers @ others", the ships may be trying to attack the missiles instead of the ships. Since they can't ram missiles, Point blank is the only option.