I installed newest version through subversion, and it runs great but for some reason I am not having any luck getting it to recognize the plugins. I have looked through what documentation I have, and am sure I am overlooking something relatively easy, but am not sure what else I can do.

Did you 'make install' after compilation?

I ran make install and it entered into the plugins directory and everything. It listed them being sent to various directories. I looked in in the $HOME/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent directory and it has a blank document named plugins, and I was wondering if this was to contain the links to where the various plugins were. I should theoretically be able to take my install logs and just add them assuming I new the proper syntax.

run kbuildsycoca after that rerun KT and you see the plugins listed in the settings dialog

Ah, yes. Thank you kindly.