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.
OK, finally fixed that.
Don't really want to restart p2pool, though..

It's essentially just cosmetic
err, quoted the wrong msg. I meant the wrong hash rates being reported locally... but the correct # on shares =p