Ok so I received my first "mining bonus," and it moved the coins into the "staked" part of the wallet. Now my "weight" went down to the 400 coins I just moved, and it says it will be 2 weeks until another bonus. What about the 40k I have in the staked portion? They don't count anymore?
It takes 8 hours to mature after coins have been moved, also after staking a portion of coins (as well as the newly created 1.5 blk) will be immature for 8 hours before those coins will begin staking again.
With 40,000 blk you should stake around 4-5 times per day at the moment, on average.
It will also automatically split your 40k stake into smaller stakes until they are down to around 125 BLK per stake.
This way, not your entire stake will move into the immature pile
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is how it works and make you more efficient over time.