I'm close to releasing a new wallet if you don't mind waiting just a little bit.  It will save you having to modify the conf file and add nodes...and you don't have to load a chain if you don't want to.  The new client is syncing entirely from the network in about 3 days for me. 

@Damdai The code changes are all done.  My testing is complete and I have a few people beta testing.  I'm now working on the osx build.