I just want to say I think converting KED into a Quark clone is about the worst thing to do...QRK has almost the lowest value in Cryptsy's BTC market and I think KED would follow suit if it is remade as such.
I've come to the same conclusion.
After careful thought, and looking at the poll (some people seem to have changed their vote).
16 for Quark and 15 for Scrypt (pos+pow). if we add the non pow scrypt votes we have 19 for scrypt in total. So KED the "next generation" will be scrypt after all.
I think based on the news, there may well be scrypt based hardware soon it would lend to a more stable future. If specialist hardware does get released then it will really support the coin a lot more than a CPU based coin ever could.