Robert, my plugins are working, it was my mistake, not sure what i did to fix it but they work!
I am however having another issue with my sapi 5 cepstral voice. In Hal 6.2 my voice works fine however in in hal 7 its telling me that i need to register my voice every time hal speaks. I only have the one voice installed. Is it looking for the voice in a different area? I've tried uninstalling then re installing with no luck. Very weird. Any ideas?