I had the same issue on my server. Remove all your plugins from your plugins folder and start your server and try to login, it should work. Then...
Is the code for 1.4.2 is on github. How does it work, you guy's have to decompile their code and put it back together in bukkit.
Ho do I join the dev team. I would like to help as I am a software programmer.
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