The problem with that is that even if my public players don't care, my friends who have been playing on the server for two years do. They won't play anymore if they lose all of their stuff because of how much time they put into it and I understand. Some of them made incredibly massive, detailed structures that probably took forever to make. I want to update so we can enjoy the Vanilla stuff that comes with the newer versions. It seems that IC2 is causing all of the problems so I'll do what I can to try to fix it. If not, then I don't know.
If it was just an update from direwolf20's 1.5.2 pack then it would not be too bad, yes there can be issues, but when you go from one version of minecraft to another in which there are a number of changes, including missing mods, then that is when it gets a lot more complicated.
If you and you friends really want to try and go to the 1.5.2 pack then I suggest you do some research and try and fix it yourself. If you want to post crash logs then go ahead somebody may help you out.