Ahh that's a bummer, vanilla smelting recipes have 1 item in and 1 item out. The thing with Lead smelting is that it produces a byproduct and when reversing the recipe it requires 2 ingredients. Regular furnaces can't handle this since they have "hidden" recipes and only accept one ingredient.
Let me give it some thought. There are more incompatibilities with smelting recipes and I need a good solution for it anyways. Unfortunately I don't have a hotfix so the best thing to do with the lead plates is to store it indefinitely :/