My receipes were not correct for NEI even after a hard force update. caboth mentioned in chat to type: /mtload and that fixed it. I thought I would post this to the forum since based on other comments in chat I wasn't alone.
Please read the broadcast and the sign at the spawn. Broadcast: So the recipes are not broken we just added a workaround fix for the NEI crashes.
sounds great. Thanks. (still worth posting here since most of us don't go to spawn. If something isn't working I check here...I don't go check for signs in spawn.)