cant modify firewall

every since the last update, the firewall has been screwy. i lost everything, nothing was going thru including port 8000. i had to get someone from the datacenter to go into my server locally and open the ssh port again. once he did that i was able to get everything up and running again but since then it has been a night made. nothing seems to work. configurations overwrite themselves. saving iptables rules doesn't stick. soon as i save and close and reopen, the changes have been reverted (even using vim on command line). i would take ownership of the file and stop it from being modified, but then fail2 ban cant operate properly...

every time i click the firewall tab i get this:

Crashed
u'fail2ban-courierauth'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ajenti/plugins/main/main.py", line 158, in handle_message
    self.ui.dispatch_event(update['uid'], update['event'], update['params'])
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ajenti/ui/__init__.py", line 72, in dispatch_event
    self.root.dispatch_event(uid, event, params)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ajenti/ui/element.py", line 382, in dispatch_event
    if child.dispatch_event(uid, event, params):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ajenti/ui/element.py", line 378, in dispatch_event
    self.event(event, params)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ajenti/ui/element.py", line 402, in event
    getattr(self, 'on_%s' % self_event)(**(params or {}))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ajenti/plugins/main/main.py", line 381, in on_switch
    child.broadcast('on_page_load')
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ajenti/ui/element.py", line 356, in broadcast
    getattr(self, method)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ajenti/plugins/iptables/main.py", line 149, in on_page_load
    self.config.load()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/reconfigure/configs/base.py", line 46, in load
    self.nodetree = self.parser.parse(self.content)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/reconfigure/parsers/iptables.py", line 37, in parse
    chains[chain].append(node)
KeyError: u'fail2ban-courierauth'

here's the problem, Fail2Ban isnt running. i was having so many issues with the firewall i decided not to further complicate it with Fail2Ban, so i set all to sections to false in Fail2Ban and yet i still get this.

What the heck is going on and when can we expect to see it fixed?