[Jon Stratis]

That sounds like normal operation. Most of the time, when constructing a robot drive train, one side has to run opposite of the other - in order to go forward, one set of motors drives clockwise, while the other drives counterclockwise.

The way the victors work, you'll get solid orange when they're receiving a "stop", or no motion, signal. Full speed in one direction will turn them green, full speed in the other will turn them red. Anywhere between full speed and stop, however, tends to just have the LED off or flashing.

It sounds like you might just have them swapped around a bit... when you push forward, does the robot actually move forward? When you go backwards, does it actually move backwards? As for it turning right when you want it to turn left, it just sounds like you have the motors programmed opposite of what they should be - the right should be the left and the left should be the right in the code.