Can I just copy my wallet dat into the wallet then? Or is there a coin swap process
No its just a hard fork. Just close old wallet, download new wallet, run new wallet. Thats all

If you can't sync, use these nodes:
http://pastebin.com/Wf26asF2Later I'll connect the hardcoded dns seeds (nodea.stakecoin.co, nodeb.stakecoin.co, nodec.stakecoin.com) to some VPS so it can sync automatically just need to wait for my paycheck soon.