About the xml, VS you should remove the (city) label to the bonuses or put it everywhere, San Diego is not the same of San Diego (city)!, so your bonus will never be assigned cause no one can hold a territory labelled as San Diego (city), etc etc... And also i noticed that overrides are wrong. You should put the override element/text into the correct tag, look the corrections i did on one of your bonuses here below (i've also removed the city label)
<continent>
<name>5 cities</name>
<bonus>5</bonus>
<components>
<territory>San Diego</territory>
<territory>Bakersfield</territory>
<territory>Lampoc</territory>
<territory>Fresno</territory>
<territory>Stockton</territory>
<territory>Monterey</territory>
<territory>Sacramento</territory>
<territory>Redding</territory>
<territory>Eureka</territory>
</components>
<required>5</required>
<overrides>
<override>3 cities</override>
<override>4 cities</override>
</overrides>
</continent>
If you need further help just throw me a PM
About graphics, i personally think that when borders and connection will be fixed the map could be ready for a short sticky period and then moving to the FF.
Nobodies
I'll get to it now. Thanks for the <overrides> clarification, 
