I find it hard to believe anyone is having problems mining this.   Run the wallet,  add some nodes in the debug console "addnode x.x.x.x add" for each node IP, wait a few minutes for it to sync the last 12 hours of blockchain data then once you are synced start mining by hitting the engage button or "setgenerate true -1" in the console.  Even on a crappy intel i3 3.30ghz desktop I found a block in 1 hour.  good luck and great coin dev!