Bukkit

This was a ticket to factions as it was their update that broke it, but if you guys could suggest anyway i can, and MANY OTHER users can, work around this issue with factions, that would be great. THANKS PEXCHAT GUYS

.//Notes: Thanks in advance for taking the time to look into this! I have tried to provide as much information as possible here. If you would like to get more info, or use my dev server to test something for yourself with little work, let me know.
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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.fresh install of latest factions release
2. permissionsex and pexchat plugin configured properly for muliti groups
3. player in any group

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected [factiontag] &f[prefixa groupa prefixb groupb&f] Player: message

got instead <factiontag Player>

What version of the product are you using?
works currently with factions 1.6.9

Do you have an error log of what happened?
n/a

Please provide any additional information below.
This only happens in any version later than 1.6.9. (breaks in 1.6.9.1+ and any 1.7+)
Confirmed only happens when "chatTagEnabled": true,
"chatTagEnabled": false will stop the breaking of normal chat formatting by pexchat.

adding [FACTION] anywhere in the string in pexchat does not correct this.

everything works perfectly in 1.6.9
the configs below work with 1.6.9 then break on factions.jar update update

**using 1.3.1R2 w/ 1.6.9
tested this with all newer faction versions on 1.3.2R2**

Working configs:
bukkit 1.3.1-R2.0

factions 1.6.9 - http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/factions/
config: http://pastebin.com/BvbFCw43

pexchat 3.1.0 - http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/pexchat/
config: http://pastebin.com/g5MV1N0s

PermisionsEx
**this is modified to protect my real file. only faction perms and structure remain.
permsymal: http://pastebin.com/zmJfS3PS

If your testing this:
load the plugins above then put in my configs/perms
login to your server
in console:
"pex user (yourname) group set fsr"
"pex user (yourname) group add expert"

ingame:
say "/f create testfaction"
say "hello world"
your chat should be:  [**testfaction FSR Expert] |||||||||||| yourname: hello world