Hey fcmatt, thanks for your answer. I hope your vacation was restful.
I already found the problem with getblocktemplate. I just compiled the version from github. Seems to be much newer than the one on litecoin.org
You wrote:
Besides getting data into mysql I would also have to verify it was forwarding shares properly to litecoin
Have you been able to verify if shares are properly send to litecoin?
Give me a day or two and i will find what i changed.
I would really like to know the changes. Thanks!

Litecoin-testnet in a box showed that stratum was working. I am now trying to prove it in the wild. Just wish i had double the hashing power to speed it up. No one really wants to mine at a pool that has not solved at least one block to show it functions.