Most of those problems are fixed in the trunk. I only ever use one storage building myself... as long as you sell all unnecessary stuff, you won't have a problem...
I usually place my first base in japan, and my dropship reaches from there to everywhere except south america, so I place my second base in middle/south america to take care of that the second month. The reason japan is so good is that the atlantic is across the globe from it, which makes it reach most land, exception noted above.
So basically, get the SVN trunk and compile it yourself, or wait for the next binary, should be a new one out soon.
I just updated from 12428 to 12449 myself...