Yea. That happens to me too. I didn't touch the code for drawing them and...looks at it...they are drawn as entities in the world. crying Why the hell would (the original mod creator) do that?! Just use draw_sprite!. >.< I hate working with graphics. I'll get to this 'later'. That might mean a few hours, or a few days. Depends on when I have an emotional budget for frustration (factorio graphics are my least favorite thing to work on). For now, I've found that if you copy-paste a blueprint, in any direction, your bots will be able to build all the turrets without hitting the problem. Or at least, I've never seen them hit the problem yet.
Can you give me steps to reproduce that second thing? Where you get an unpowered icon sticking around in the world? That's not supposed to happen and I thought I'd fixed that one.