MMO Starter Kit

Hello
I have a couple of starter problems when running Listen Server and Client.
1 My server starts off with a dude standing there with bots around him, just nice. But my client starts under ground with no character and in flying mode and no bots. How do i fix this?
2 When I login with my account details in the game and create a character it shows up in the database admin just fine, but if I log into my account again it says I haven’t created any characters and forces me to make a new one. What’s happening here?

[woops - I took out -local from both server and client shortcut params. With it in there, everything is fine].

Regards,