wow that was weird I used to launch the addon from a short cut, went into video->addons and launched it, and now the update works, the new links are there and everything. I wonder if the skin somehow caches the addon completely, I know its normally cached if you re-launch it from a shortcut but I restarted kodi and deleted everything. odd. must be a skin issue. no other addons have done that though.
thanks btw. if you had not mentioned it I probably would have thought it was broken and not troubleshooted it.