Apparently a new version of LTC is coming out with lowered fee's.

Is this happening soon?
I tried to send 9 LTC to my friend and transaction fee was 6 LTC. Insane isn't it?
Is there any way I can consolidate my LTC from the address that my p2pool is using to deposit micro deposits, into another wallet address with no transactions fees. It is ridicilous that I have to pay 66% fee on my transactions.
Or is there a way to run my run_p2pool.exe so it doesn't give me multiple micro deposits but just one larger in amount.