I remember back in the day setting FTL (follow the leader) in SWTOR was quite challenging. You'll need to include your ISBoxer profile so we can take a look to see where the problem may be.

I do believe it was a two step process; the steps were:

1) target the leader
2) follow the leader via what you set your in game follow button as. (i.e. `)

This can be done without you manually selecting the target, aka the leader.