Sensehat with BlackHat Not working

I use the female to male jumper jerky over ribbon cables. I hate having to think direction changes in amidst everything else I am working on. I use a test light/continuity tester alot. I solder header extenders in place of just male headers on my pi zeros and pHats. This way I have two access points to every GPIO and makes using a ribbon cable easier (place double ended male header in bottom/female end of soldered in extender header.
With the sense hat I found Jessie release 2-26 I think it was to work more flawlessly with my sensehat when constructing my Astro-Pi and adding the buttons. On the latest two versions of jessie (3/16 & 5/16) I was having a problem getting my buttons attached to the GPIOs to work.