Funny thing. Last night when the trouble started, I cashed out my pool balance, and I never saw it on any of the blockchains, even when I got up in the ~8000s. I thought it was lost in the ethers, but when I fired up 1.0 up a few minutes ago, it showed up and confirmed. So now I'm all happily synced, 7 connections, the logfile isn't a wall of errors, and all's right with the world. It looks like the Titanic has settled on the bottom of the sea...


{
"blocks" : 8598,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.76224760,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 30350697,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}


The last 20 or so blocks took a long time to sync.

Edit: the last mining transaction that showed up was 8/9/13 21:51 U.S. Eastern Time.