I believe there was some form of ddos on mtgox and they didn't admit it directly.

Of course - exchange should be more diversified and I'm surprised it isn't already. I personally used Bitstamp.net to buy and they also seemed to be attacked in the last two days. So there is not only a problem of monopolisation of the exchange but it's vulnerability to those types of attacks.

And this is a huge problem of bitcoin at the moment. It's mainly a comodity to trade and make some money on, not use it practially to buy products. I know there are a few companies accepting btc, but they're few and far between.

Bitcoin is excellent idea for new type of currency but unfortunately it has to exist in degenrated system driven by Wall Street. It didn't have time to grow in strenght before people started manipulating it so it's going to be difficult to keep it growing. It can't just hang on one huge monoplised exchange as Mtgox. It's insane. Can someone imagine that value of the dollar dropped because someone closed down dollar exchange?