I just tried this and restarted and we are at about 120 seconds and it is just as dead as before.
Do the devs realize it cannot go live on an exchange in this state?
The devs probably think you are a twit suggesting that, I certainly do. The client works fine, there are over 700 miners atm, and I bet all have wallets as there are no exchanges to keep your coins on.
you prove to be less than useful.... the reason it works for everyone is because they have the peer list which grows and grows but if youve done a fresh install then you need to connect to one of the inbuilt ip addresses which are either dead or maxed out