spawning problems

in my latest map i had an issue where red was spawning at blu's forward spawn room instead of in their own.
even with those spawn points disabled + set to blue, and there being red+ enabled spawn points that were not blocked.

so i deleted every single spawn point, put them in again, making sure i had the right team set to each, and that they were at least 16 units away from anything that might block them.
now only the 1st spawn point i placed is being used (when i use addbot command, theyall just spawn on top ofeach other)

there's nothing in the console indicating that the other spawn points are blocked.
i honestly can't work out why this is happening


addendum:
if i put spawn points in blocked positions (i.e. put them in brushes) the console still informs me about this.
so it's not a case of the spawnpoints not existing on the map either.

edit:
even if i disable all spawnpoints, all player still spawn at that spawn point, regardlessof the fact that there is no enabled spawn points anywhere on the map (and they should be spawning at 0,0,0 instead)

i really hope someone can offer a suggestion here.
i've put a lot of work into this, and i don't want to have to scrap it