This is insane:
To get blk0001.dat from 1,010,000 to now 1,039,183 ... took all evening. And it has to go over 2,000,0000 KB - right?
At this speed the bootstrap.dat reading would take until the end of the month. Or the end of the summer.
*shrug* - No such problem here. All I did for the new wallet is copy my wallet.dat over, the bootstrap file, and let it rebuild for a day. I launch the wallet with "MintCoin-Qt.exe -datadir=D:\Apps\Wallets\MintCoin\DAT", to write the data to my larger SSD. This older machine has a small C-drive, and blockchains now days were eating up all of my available disk space.
If there are wallet issues though, that will definitely hurt the coin.