on a completely unrelated topic from my post above.....
something is up with orphans.
4 in the last 24 hours seems high when the total for the last week is 7, and "lifetime" (yes i know the pool is young) is 10.
that means that 40 percent of orphans came in the last 24 hours, which seems abnormal.
edit:
just checked suprnova, and they're showing 1 orphan in the last 24 hours and 6 in the last week. they also found a tenfold or so more blocks in that period, so they technically should have many more orphans, not less.
so yeah, something is up with the orphans.