So, bukkit doesnt work. At the very least i could not get it to work with mcmyadmin which a huge blockage in the pipeline of getting the server going the way we want it.
so... what this mean is...
hmod is installed, plugins working, you will need to roll back your version of mc to 1.1 again to play. this is simply the best option and i do not care to hear any complaints.
thanks,
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