Ok. I think I see what I did wrong. I started a rescan because it seemed to be sitting on one block for a while. That's why it was taking so long.
Today it just finished scanning the bitcoin db. So I enabled the Litecoin currency, but it seemed to be stuck on block. So with Litecoin highlighted, I selected "Rescan". Instead of rescanning the Litecoin db, it started rescanning the bitcoin db again.

Is there a command line switch to stop the rescan? I can't wait another 2 weeks.
Thanks.