Great - thanks for the response Mike - I really appreciate it. Makes sense, as confirmations have indeed been taking longer than usual and I didn't realize it required 10 on the initial transfer. Thanks again and keep fighting the good fight!
I saw mention from Gavin (
https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=135) that some transactions in the past week have taken extra long to confirm due to the network transaction volume sometimes exceeding the 250kB/block size limit, so this may have added some delay to your scheme. I try to minimize my logging, so I can't tell exactly, but it looks like your tx took about 2.5 hours to reach 10 confirmations.
All good?
Peace,
Mike