YES! After fighting with essentials not wanting to work (They haven't updated to 1.8, and don't even recognize 1.8 as a version yet) I finally got essentials to work, as well as essentials group manager, which just happens to be our permissions plugin.
Sooo now we got the plugins that do
Ranks,
Homes,
Warps,
Economy,
Spawn,
AFK,
Bans, IPBans included,
Kicks,
Jails,
Private Messaging,
Mail,
And more!