I have no peers.dat and no addnode lines, so easy enough. Will give this a try. Thanks!
The peers.dat file is in the same directory as the wallet.dat file.
It can not be that it was not. Probably you were not looking there.
Where it is in Windows I do not know.
Nope, this is Linux. Looking in the right place..
:~$ ls -l ~/.devcoin/
total 901388
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 2502656 May 18 11:23 addr.dat
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 437683153 May 13 15:59 blk0001.dat
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 474169344 May 18 11:23 blkindex.dat
drwx------ 2 aatheus aatheus 4096 May 18 11:11 database
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 24576 May 18 12:50 __db.001
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 1441792 May 18 13:03 __db.002
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 270336 May 18 13:03 __db.003
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 98304 May 18 12:50 __db.004
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 5570560 May 18 13:03 __db.005
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 57344 May 18 12:50 __db.006
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 0 May 11 21:42 db.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aatheus aatheus 2478110 May 18 12:50 debug.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aatheus aatheus 93 May 18 12:50 devcoin.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aatheus aatheus 65 May 18 12:49 devcoin.conf.bak
drwxrwxr-x 2 aatheus aatheus 4096 May 12 00:11 receiver
-rw------- 1 aatheus aatheus 90112 May 18 11:23 wallet.dat
:~$