Scite and Scite4Autoit not playing well together

I use a vanilla scite for general purpose text editing and ive some how ended up with an issue that causes scite4autoit to become 'vanilla' when scite is installed at the same time on my system.

ive tried executing the scite.exe directly from the autoit program directory with no luck, still just vanilla scite.
Ive tried re-installing scite4autoit after vanilla scite is installed and still no luck.
as soon as i uninstall vanilla scite everything is fine.

I dont know enough about scite configuration to track down the cause and i'm hoping someone can help, thanks!