WPA2 CCMP issues with netcfg 2.8.3

Question

I'm on a machine with RT2860 network interface, however because networkmanager kept dropping the connection and made it roughly 5x slower than on any other OS, I decided to move to netcfg.  After setting up the profile the way that arch wiki suggested, I kept getting an error from netcfg saying that "Authentication/Association failed".  Did I do something wrong with my configuration?  My router says WPA2-PSK security with AES (So I assume CCMP keypairing).  I suspect that the problem could be from my configuration, So I have included my rc.conf Daemon line, my network profile for netcfg, and the network block from wpa_supplicant.conf.
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng dbus slim !networkmanager @net-profiles @net-auto-wireless netfs crond)
Network Profile:
CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="Automatically generated profile"
INTERFACE=ra0
HOSTNAME=Arch
IP="dhcp"
DHCP_TIMEOUT=10
ESSID="networkname"
SECURITY="WPA-CONFIG"
KEY="passwordinplaintext" /* also tried the password hash generated by 'wpa_passphrase networkname "passwordinplaintext" ' */
SCAN="NO"
TIMEOUT=15
WPA_CONF="/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
On a side note, my wireless interface is not wlan0, but ra0
Network block from /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid="networkname"
#psk="passwordinplaintext"
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
psk=787d139150drandom56gibberish4715290ac6c523

Answer 1

Update:
"ifconfig wlan0 down" always hangs... must be a driver issue (ath5k).