I can't get mine working properly... it's getting some error about 'quark-hash' not being found or some such & not loading headers... just going to take it down instead of leaving that shell up

I had the same problem until I looked around in Neisklar's Github. Git clone this
https://github.com/Neisklar/quarkcoin-hash-python , then python setup.py install, then the pool should work.
Thanks to everyone testing, seems to run good so far, weirdly my yacpool had some hiccups this morning, investigating.
Ah, cool.. yeah, that fixed it.
I put your IP as a bootstrap address, but I don't guess it'll work properly until you change that persist value to true instead of false?
ed: nm, it does seem to be working. i'm getting mined payouts already and it looks like your node accepted my share
So,
http://nogleg.com:8372 is working now, 8372 is also the mining port (username is quarkcoin payout address). It's set to 0% fee, etc, etc