Making factions work with voltz?

[Kiante]

Does anyone know how to get factions to work with Voltz? Iv'e got bukkitforge 1.4.7 working, and factions itself worked, but no matter WHAT I tried, no one but ops could have ANY permissions. I'd really like to fix that problem. I've tried using bperms, I've tried PEX, I've tried leaving off the permissions plugin (which is supposed to give everyone main permissions by default) but nothing seems to work.

If anyone can offer any help, I would really appreciate it. Before you ask, it was not a YAML formatting problem. Most likely, it seems like the factions permissions nodes that they list just don't actually do anything. Please help!