Thanks, reverted to .7. Seeing a lot of errors and going to just let it run.
I'm going to consider myself a miner because I run a p2pool node though I don't think anyone is using it at this point.
will downgrading redownload the entire chain? because wasnt the old db converted?
Nope, because the developers thought ahead with that point. Your chain will start at the last point you ran a 0.7 or below client.