@matt, I will pay you to fix it for me.. we ARE currently evaluating this for purchase, as we are in a school system, our new money does not come for a few more months now.. I have been bringing the things to the table with spark and such that currently was preventing me from even doing a presentation to our superintendant (also the technology director).. I didn''t want the bugs that I was experiencing to cause me to get turned down for my request for funding on this venture.. If I show it to him, he will most likely get a feel of how it is working for the group of people I have testing it right now..Derek fixed one of the biggest nagging problems for me with names showing up incorrectly in spark.. I have up to 1000 users that will be using the system if I go totally "full go" with this.. which means that there is big money involved coming out of our next year budget if we go with this..  sorry to go a little off topic.. so back to it being a money issue then.. how much will you guys charge me then for this small fix??

P.S. let me know how to get the money to whomever.. paypal, etc..

otherwise I am basically stuck at 3.2.4 forever.. at least until I hopefully can get some budget for this.. It is a very bad time for us right now.. we are in the middle of going completely fiber in our whole district and to our ISP..$$$, but more importantly, we are and have been for the last 3 months "OUT" of contract with our current ISP and are paying heavily for every MEG of bandwidth we use right now.. so outside updating would get my ass handed to me right now if I let every client get a 10+ meg download through all the updated versions, so spark manager is saving my ass, and preventing me from never even having the chance to ask for budget money for software techonologies..  At least wroot has a valid point about making it be our choice with the updates feature (via a config, or checkbox).. as per : http://www.igniterealtime.org/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=25872&tstart=25

Could someone please, anyone out there with the experience, try to develop a plugin similar to the spark manager, that could be shared amongst the masses??  Open-Source...  And while I would normally thank the person who seemingly reversed engineered the spark manager and made it work with openfire 3.3.0 and emailed it to me.. I tried it, and YES it did work, and YES I promptly deleted it.. I don''t want someone else''s stolen or reverse engineered code...I want it (spark manager on openfire), but NOT that bad..........well yes,  that bad... but I am NOT THAT GUY...... If it was an open source plugin I would have not minded, but please respect the author as to his work.. I will however be glad to test other plugins from anyone that might step up to trying to make their OWN!! I hope that just maybe if enough people voice their opinion on this matter then maybe the devs will come through for us and make the changes to the old plugin.. "Fingers Crossed".. Only time will tell on this one.. And to all the above people that replied.. thanks for your support on this topic.. wherever it goes!!

This sounds like hopefully some GREAT news coming... fingers crossed!!  Thanks for your reply matt!!