Magic broken?

Update: Made a new spellcaster sim and gave them a house (I had a voodoo priestess on the eventually to do list and decided now was the time so I could test magic on a new one).  She is able to click on objets and people with the magic option there.... but I spent the last however long ranking her up in magic skills just to have it glitch out and not allow her to go above Neophyte. The bar is full and switched to Acolyte with it half way full in a split second and then defaulted back to a full Neophyte bar and the sages saying there are no more spells and potions to give me at my current level.... so it is broken. 

Also she shows in regukar charge range and it never changes and then surprise... overcharged and near death experience. No way of promoting and no way of monitoring charge levels.