"To*" field Conflicts with realname module

When sending a new message the auto complete on the To field fills in the real-name and the form only accepts the username, so users can't send the message. When attempting to send the message the following errors are dislayed:

The following recipients will not receive this private message: Richard Alva.
You must include at least one valid recipient.

Also when you put the recipient in the URL, ie messages/new/[uid] the To field gets populate with " [user]" where is the defined real name for that user from the real-name module and the second part is literal which makes no sense. I'm guessing the format on this was going to be the real-name followed but the user-name in brackets or something?

In any event the module does not work with the realname module at this point, not sure if it's a problem with this module or the realname module though.