Just as a small followup, I actuall DO have PODbot and a number of AMX plugins working again. I'm slowly re-adding Metamod and AMX plugins to find which one doesn't play nice with PODbot.

In my metamod plugins I also have one plugin disabled...in short my metamod plugins right now are only AMX, csstats, podbot and podbotfix and everything has been very smooth [fingers crossed!]

I read a few threads about the stats plugs having problems with bots too, but so far it's been very stable for me.

The only other metamod plugs I had installed that are currently disabled are the fun_ms dll, the bleeding dll, and noheadshot dlls.

As for AMX...well that's a whole mess of stuff I have disabled right now...but so far so good! yay!