As for Cryptsy, it seems parts of it are working fine. You can still send deposits and those go through fine. You can use your BTC to buy and withdraw many altcoins (hence their high price relative to other exchanges), and then you can move out the altcoins. The DVC price was at the level it's at now before Cryptsy started having its issues and the price hasn't gone down since. If a different exchange traded in DVC, then I suspect its Cryptsy price would also be inflated. I got off Vircurex quite a while ago, and had forgotten they were even still online, because I started encountering more and more hiccups with deposits and withdrawals and I worried that they might be Goxing. With Cryptsy, I think they are having genuine issues and they are genuinely working to mitigate them, but their poor PR and communication is making matters worse and leading to FUD, etc.
Cryptsy was hacked, or an insider job, whatever, at least according to rumors I've heard. There's an article allegedly about cryptsy
http://forums.prohashing.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=655&p=2477 . I have coins I'm unable to withdraw from there and my support tickets get closed. Now they don't even respond to them. Playing with fire if you deposit coins there. Strongly advise don't do it.