I was able to properly setup the network and both configs (BFGMiner and bitcoind) in large part thanks to *your older post I might add, and actually did some mining for at least a few hours, so the network has got to be ok..

(if anyone is interested I can post a diagram of the network setup I put together from the various posts)




For the power, we blew up 2 surge protectors at the very beginning, so we are doing without for now... I'm starting to think this may have been a bad idea.. do you think that's the issue?   if so, why is it working fine with slush for the past few days 24/7...?