Great advice on switching pools, after I did that it went through with no problems.  When it begins mining, there are batches of missed threads and then it will miss all threads after several minutes and I have to restart the miner program.  I am using an laptop just to get a feel for mining and don't expect any valuable returns.

[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9351/9679 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9352/9680 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9353/9681 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9354/9682 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9355/9683 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9356/9684 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9357/9685 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9358/9686 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9359/9687 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] accepted: 9360/9688 (96.61%), 14.61 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] thread 0: 84 hashes, 3.36 khash/s
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] thread 2: 48 hashes, 3.43 khash/s
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] thread 3: 84 hashes, 3.50 khash/s
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] thread 0: 24 hashes, 4.00 khash/s
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] thread 3: 36 hashes, 3.60 khash/s
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] thread 2: 36 hashes, 3.27 khash/s
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] thread 0: 36 hashes, 3.60 khash/s
[2013-12-17 15:08:23] thread 1: 72 hashes, 3.43 khash/s