I have repaired bbqcoin files with the help of figroll. The issue seemed to be incorrect checkpoints which prohibited blocks from syncing past a certain point (since the hash was incorrect, effectively forking the network.)

I am still working on getting functional windows binaries, but I think having linux bbqcoind and bbqcoin-qt is a good step for anyone developing applications for this coin. This should hopefully give you a good jumping off point. (Compiled on Ubuntu 64-bit)


I will keep you posted as more developments are made.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7771567/bbq/BBQCoin-0.02-overware.tar.gz

edit:
here is a better difficulty graph I managed to do using this bbqcoind (and getting more than 3 digits of precision after the decimal like I got from Abe) on a log scale. Using this method on a log scale, I was able to get more detail at the very very low difficulty levels. Clearly we had a miner that dropped out around thanksgiving 2012 as it was pretty constant for a long time.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7771567/bbq/difficulty-log.png

Compare to the standard plot, you see a lot of data is blown away by how huge our difficulty is lately. Anyone doubting this is picking up steam is missing an opportunity.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7771567/bbq/difficulty.png

edit2: added interactive google chart (had to take average of 10 blocks, so 39000 data points instead of 390k as google has hard 400k cell limit )
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7771567/bbq/diff.html