This forum software is quite buggy. Yesterday I was unable to register and when I tried again it said that you are already registered and automatically assigned me this user name I have.
Then today when I tried to reply it said I have already replied so I should wait 360 seconds. Then when I tried again after 360 seconds, it said I have already posted a reply which is nowhere to be found.
This happened in both Chrome and Firefox so I know this is not browser cache issue.

1. So basically all coins are stored in mining pool? If mining pool goes down, it means all coins are gone?

2. How long does it take to update my stats on mining.bitcoin.cz website? I have been running this guiminer for more than 24 hours now and I saw one message on status bar of program which said something like "Shares: 1 accepted at 9:15PM" but I see that all my stats are 0 on the website.