I've been running pure-ftpd, but it doesnt track FTP bandwidth usage which is a problem. Is there a way to get bandwidth tracking working or is my only option to switch to the horrible pro-ftpd?

What don't you like in proftpd? I find it to be an excellent FTP Server. If it's connection speed issues, then there are a couple of simple tweaks that fix that.

ya mainly it is the connection speed, sometimes it takes 30 seconds just to log in and that gets annoying.

any tweaks for it would be appreciated

No problem:

On a cPanel server, put these directives at the top of of /etc/proftpd.conf

AuthPAM off
UseReverseDNS off

AuthPam can be disabled because cPanel uses its own passwd files. UseReverseDNS just isn't needed and is the main cause of connection slowdown.

i added those in but it didnt seem to help at all, any idea why?

Since on cPanel it runs in daemon mode rather than through tcpwrappers - did you stop and restart it?

/etc/init.d/proftpd stop
/etc/init.d/proftpd start

If you did, sorry that I couldn't help

Try IdentLookups Off as well