dagronrat | Newspaper Chinese characters

So, today I did something unusual, I bought the paper...

... Okay, I did TWO things unusual, our drawing day was replaced with a walk-day through Aberdeen (which was very nice, though I didn't get any drawing done and had no camera,) AND I bought a paper on the way home.

AND I READ IT. Or most of it... Whatever caught me eye or interest really... (Such as the frontpage saying the anglican and catholic church might be thinking about a union again. Which is why I bought the paper really, curiosity killed the cat and all...)

Then I came upon this neat little article/page thingamy. Titled "Who said that you can't read Chinese?"
Page 11 of the world section (I guess?) of The Times.

It basically introduced the idea that Chinese Characters are just deformed Drawings of things, and that if you look at them right, you can guess what they are.

They even had a sketch to illustrate this, like so:

~~Okay, my kanji copying skills are bad, I won't deny it.~~

Of course, this grabbed my attention, and then I saw the little "brainteasers" underneath, basically inviting us to "guess" at the meanings of various Chinese characters as if it were a game of Sudoku.
And so I did.
And I enjoyed it.
And then came a problem...

I think they made a mistake in it. And if there's one thing that puts me off, it's an obvious mistake in an article.
I know that today in the age of the spellchecker one no longer bothers to worry about proof-reading that much, that if a mistake is found, it's very easy to click the edit button and not worry about consequences cost or time-wise. And fair enough, if the reader is intelligent they usually spot and correct the mistake... (And in this article it's not a Typo but a logic mistake I'm sensing.)

But anyways, maybe I'm sensing something "OFF" when there isn't really, and am the one making an idiot of herself by thinking so...

Anyone willing to give it a go and/or see/find the same mistakes as me?

Note: GOAL is to associate each character with one of the four english meanings underneath them.

Here are the official answers and mine explained in white on white (overlign to read) with pinpointed by a * the answers I question. Feel free to give the brainteasers a go before reading though.

1a)This one I guessed right according to the solution: RIVER	*2a)Okay, here things got complicated. Having decided I knew what 2c) was, I figured this one was FOREST, but the solution said FIRE.	3a)Two fires? I say HOT. It agrees!	4a)MOON! It was given in the example! :D
1b)Same here: CLAW	*2b)Here I said TREE, it said TREE. And I question why it says 3 trees make fire.	3b)Okay, I admit to getting this wrong, but I'll develop why in 3c). It said BRIGHT. I put down mountain.	4b)TOMORROW! Ditto! :D
1c)Here, I did the math upon seeing the Chinese Character 7a) and the four possibilities: RAIN was the only one in common.	*2c)I said FIRE with a "=D" on my face. I've seen Haibara Ai's name in Kanji enough, and I know the Hai has that of fire in it, which I thought I recognized here. Solution said BURN.	*3c)Here it says MOUNTAIN, but I think to myself, "Wait, doesn't the Kanji for Aoyama's name have mountain in it? I don't recognize this chinese character." ... Especially since it's the same character as in 7b)! And mountain isn't in 7's options! I put Bright here, but I suspect they meant above... Or meant to put the Chinese character beside the Fire one in 3b). Your pick.	4c)FIELD! Because I remember the case where they discussed Takagi's name in detective Conan 33/34 was it?
1d)Which leaves us with SNOW which, it is logical, has that of rain in it.	*2d)Here I said BURN following the logic that that's what happens when you put wood(trees) and fire together. Here solution said FOREST. Man, I wouldn't want to live in their forest!	3d)SUN! It was given in the example! :D	4d)FARMER! Because Field + random thing that looks like a dude? Yeah... No problems here~

5a)Okay here I was a dolt and put Umbrella. Answer was WAREHOUSE!	6a)HE! Because random dude is there and I did the other three first... \|D	7a)RAIN! see 1c) 8cD	8a)MOUTH: see 4c).
5b)UMBRELLA! I should have known with the thing below the hat that actually looks like a dude.	6b)SHE! Because I've actually recognized it as meaning girl. Go me!	7b)ABOVE. Because I couldn't picture any of the others meaning that, despite confusion with 3c).	8b)Okay I admit it, I kinda cheated here: TASTE.
5c)APART! Because two things seperated by a 5d).	6c)WOMAN! I got it because the thing on the left looked like "she."	7c)ENGLAND. Whut really? I only picked this last. ...Is that a bowler hat? Or a fat man?	8c)HEAP OF STONES.
5d)KNIFE! Because I remember that the Kanji for Yaiba (I've seen it often enough to remember it) has something to do with sword, therefor knife.	6d)BEAUTY! Ayumi and Akemi both have this in their names, and I recall google translating Ayumi as stepbeauty or something like that.	7d)SMILE: Those cheeky eyes gave it away.	8d)THREE PEOPLE: I got this one, because I remembered the bit on the right was the kanji for 3 and the thing on the left looked like the random farming dude.

Verdict: Am I going crazy or can I still do logic? (No, because really, these were fun and I wouldn't mind doing other brainteasers like this. =cD)
How did you fare?