JSF Enumeration SelectManyCheckbox Validation Error

I am in the process of learning JSF and have been working on this for some number of days with no success.  I have an Enum and want to display its values on a page as checkboxes and have those populate a bean when submitted. It never seems to even try to populate the bean as i never see setFeatures get called.  The only message i get back is

Validation Error "Features": Value is not a valid option.

 Despite many hours, I cannot get it to work.   Please let me know if you see what I am doing wrong.

JSP
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<h:outputText value="#{pageMsgs.featuresLabel}"/>
<h:selectManyCheckbox value="#{pWizard.features}" layout="pageDirection" id="Features">
      <f:selectItems value="#{pWizard.featureTypes}" />
</h:selectManyCheckbox>
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Java File
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//Feature methods
public List<SelectItem> getFeatureTypes(){
      List<SelectItem> types = new LinkedList<SelectItem>();
      for( FeatureTypes type : FeatureTypes.values()  ){
            types.add(new SelectItem( type, type.toString() ) );
      }
      return types;
}

public List<FeatureTypes> getFeatures(){

      FProduct t=getTemplate();
      if (features==null){
            features = new LinkedList<FeatureTypes>();
            ListIterator<FFeature> i = t.getFeatures().listIterator();
            while( i.hasNext() ){
                  features.add( i.next().getType() );
            }
      }
      return features;
}
public void setFeatures(List<FeatureTypes> featList){

      FProduct t=getTemplate();
      ListIterator<FeatureTypes> li = featList.listIterator();
      LinkedList<FFeature> ffList = new LinkedList<FFeature>();
      while( li.hasNext() ){
            FeatureTypes ftype = li.next();
            ffList.add(  new FFeature(ftype)  );
      }
      features=featList;
      t.setFeatures(ffList);
}
private FProduct template=null;
List<FeatureTypes> features;
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And I found this Enum converter while wandering around on Google, doesnt seem to help with much, I dont ever see the getAsObject method called, although JSF loves the getAsString method.

Enum Converter
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public class EnumTypeConverter implements Converter {

      public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent comp, String value) throws ConverterException {
            Class enumType = comp.getValueBinding("value").getType(context);
            return Enum.valueOf(enumType,value);
      }
      public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent comp, Object object) throws ConverterException {
            if (object == null) {
                  return null;
            }
            Enum type = (Enum) object;
            return type.toString();
      }
}
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faces-config.xml
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      <converter>
            <converter-for-class>java.lang.Enum</converter-for-class>
            <converter-class>util.faces.EnumTypeConverter</converter-class>
      </converter>
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Help.... any ideas?