ha! it did work, went out instantly...! i suppose one has to 'tickle' the pool once in a while...

thanks a lot!!
Hmm. That trick did not work for me.
I guess it is delayed because slush can not move our payout money from cold to hot storage for a descent fee due to extreme congestion. (Because following remark is on their help page:)
Delay in Payout.
For security reason pool uses two wallets Hot and Cold.
The funds immediately available for payouts are kept in a Hot wallet. This wallet has quite a low balance for security reasons and when it becomes empty, the pool administrator has to load it from the cold storage a highly secured offline computer keeping pool's bitcoins. Since this process can not be automated and only very limited number of people has access to the cold wallet, it can introduce a few hours delay in sending bitcoins to user's wallet.