gedit plugin confusion

[Bridgestone24]

sorry if this is a repost x1000 but it's late, i've been at work for 13+ hours and i can't figure this out.

With that said. I tried to add the "Align" plug in. I downloaded all the files, i put the in the gedit-2/plugins/ directory. I killed gedit and restarted, went to edit preferences/plugins and when i click the box for Align the Align name and description turn gray and i can't activate it. Any ideas? This plugin seems to be the cure for my data frustrations so all help is greatly greatly appreciated.

The same thing happens to every plugin i add. Do i need to run a make or configure of some sort?

[byStanderone]

...haven't tried plugins as of yet, hope this link have something of use to you:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=710623

[Bridgestone24]

Thanks for the reply. I did look through this and no go. Everything seems right but it just turns gray.

[hollerith]

The location is meant to be where you put it but SOMEBODY thought it would be a good idea to put them elsewhere just for UBUNTU.

Look in /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins