ok thanks, my permissions handler is permissionsbukkit and with permissions 3x (my former permissions) i had setrank. setrankPB (used for permissionsbukkit) is also made by the same person who made setrank, and setrank had multiworld support, (which is what i am trying to work out with ichat, permissionsbukkit, and setrankPB) but it didn't say that it had multiworld support in its features list. setrankPB has the same features except you can rank using iconomy, and thats the only difference with the features. that makes me think that this should work, except permissions 3x had a built in prefix option in its groups.yml file, and it had heaps of groups.yml files for each world, and it also had users.yml in each world folder. the built in prefix thing makes me think that might be the reason that setrank worked multiworld, im not sure... :/
this post wasnt exactly about me asking questions, i was just explaining my problem, and you might even have a solution (doubt it, because im probably the only person with this problem

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well, thanks for reading this,
- koopa