added the nodes and tring to launch wallet (it takes some time to start up) will let you know on the block chain copy.
My other choice is to load a new wallet on a dif. computer and move my old wallet.dat file to it and redownload the chain from the beginning?
yeah man you just need to redownload the chain and it will work sweet. here are some of the nodes i use
addnode=78.70.234.88
addnode=217.175.119.125
addnode=91.121.79.208
addnode=167.88.15.89
addnode=47.180.22.86
addnode=51.254.45.117
addnode=90.151.32.61
addnode=135.23.127.145
addnode=70.52.41.17
addnode=73.116.79.63
addnode=193.2.87.95
try those.