Ive got the jtoomim fork running keeps saying "downloading shares" but it goes no further.
Fell to sleep at the laptop the other night and still the same 7 hours later.
Email your p2pool/data/bitcoin/log file to (edit: email redacted because of spam).
Also, if anyone is having trouble connecting and doesn't mind giving me ssh access, I would like to be able to investigate these issues further. I've heard several reports from other people of having trouble downloading shares, but I've not yet been able to reproduce the issue myself.