I never mind the questions, but I'm afraid I'm sorta at a loss at this time, lol.
Wondercard abuse: Roamers in Johto/Kanto all advance the frame accordingly, the reporter would not be wrong there. Just make sure you're on Method: Wondercard. As far as I know, interacting with the pokemart man is +1 to your frame, so that's not the issue either. If you're doing it in Cerulean City, then no frame advancements from random NPCs. How are you verifying your frame? By going down the list in the main page or...?
Moltres: Method K for encounters of wild pokemon is all I can think of. There's no real reason why it'd jump that many frames.
If you want to give me step by step details of what you did for the problem that you're having, then it might shed some light on this. Otherwise, this is about all I can think of just waking up, ahaha.