Agreed. One shouldn't have to start tampering with the transaction settings to get p2pool working optimally, but at the detriment of bitcoin itself, it should just work properly out of the box. I believe if p2pool was rewritten in C or C++ it would not only be more cross platform compatible than python, but it would also definitely make it easier to pinpoint the stratum issue that I have been banging on about ever since it's introduction, simply because it is more widely understood and used by programmers/coders. Of which I am not one