Personally, I have tried every recommendation suggested in this thread and other threads on other sites.  My problem, almost identical to POD3's problem has been posted many times before the fork and after the fork in December.  I've seen one or two people say that the suggestions worked for them, but the majority (like myself and POD3) are just left hanging.  I have tried the GUI wallet and the CLI wallets, with no success.

This would be a completely different story if the developers were engaged and trying to help or communicating relevant information regularly.  I would happily work with them to try to resolve my own issues and assist with others.  

Look, I really like the idea of this coin and would happily mine it, but if one of the most basic functions for this coin is this difficult, then why would I bother when there are 1500+ coins that I can direct my attention to?