How does one mine from the wallet? pardon my ignorance.
While no pools are available you can use the in wallet miner. We have been talking to pools and they had sone difficulties with the algo. We will present a solution for this in a few days.
I just downloaded the wallet and its version v0.8.7.2-unk-beta
Is that the latest and I don't see a built in miner in the wallet.
Settings -> debug -> console and write "setgenerate true" if i remember correctly
Edit: or make a conf file named on %appdata%/wrapper named wrapper.conf and add like "gen=1" to it and save. You'll see the mining speed by writing "getmininginfo" into the console