Help with setting up server: Odd behavior

I apologize in advance if this has been asked/answered, I searched the wiki and the forums but couldnt find anything relating to what I'm experiencing.

I'm attempting to set up a server using the rpg and druid mod. It works great when I play solo, however when my room mate joins the game I am hosting, the second player cannot fire any guns, has no hud, and the majority of the skills to buy, including class options, are blank.
Note however that on my game client, all the skills are working and I can use weapons just fine.

Oddly, we tried installing the mod on his machine and had it run as a server, and the exact same thing happens in reverse, his client shows fine, but if I connect I have no guns and most of the skills are blank.
This issue persists if I run a dedicated server, however any client including myself connecting to the dedicated server have the same problem

In the UT2004.ini file on the server, you need to add UT2004RPG and DruidsRPG200 as ServerPackages - add them just after the other ServerPackages. This tells the server what modules clients need to have loaded.
(assuming it is DruidsRPG200)