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There's a lot of things that could cause these problems you mention. It isn't the dextrose used for bottling. My first question would be about your water source. Tap water? Does it have chlorine in it? Did you filter the chlorine out with a charcoal filter? If it's not your water then you...

They will carbonate faster at higher temperature. Since the amount of sugar that is being fermented for carbonation is very small compared to the overall beer volume, it doesn't impact the flavor. Actually, many breweries use a lager strain to carbonate the ales if it is a long aged beer or...

Either the kit instructions are wrong, you measured wrong, or you didn't steep at the right temperature. In any case, your beer will likely be just fine and if you didn't measure it you wouldn't know the difference!

But it's in a bucket with lots of O2 available. Nail polish means acetobacter. It has that ropey look from pedio... which is known to "clean up" after a few weeks. I would never dump! Taste it, and then taste it again in two weeks. Also the dupont saison strain which I think it what you are...