For shits and giggles I started a new wallet and this is the getpeerinfo:
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getpeerinfo
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[
{
"addr" : "72.199.125.208:1910",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1389405517,
"lastrecv" : 1389405517,
"conntime" : 1389399965,
"version" : 70000,
"subver" : "/Pennies:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 247782,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "84.94.165.212:1910",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1389405486,
"lastrecv" : 1389405452,
"conntime" : 1389400018,
"version" : 70000,
"subver" : "/Pennies:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 247784,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "115.28.15.70:1910",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1389405520,
"lastrecv" : 1389405519,
"conntime" : 1389400045,
"version" : 70000,
"subver" : "/Pennies:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 247784,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "75.141.91.56:1910",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1389405520,
"lastrecv" : 1389405520,
"conntime" : 1389400172,
"version" : 70000,
"subver" : "/Pennies:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 247785,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "114.145.117.253:1910",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1389404921,
"lastrecv" : 1389404384,
"conntime" : 1389400781,
"version" : 70000,
"subver" : "/Pennies:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 50623,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "27.33.253.164:1910",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1389405521,
"lastrecv" : 1389405521,
"conntime" : 1389401071,
"version" : 70000,
"subver" : "/Pennies:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 247802,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "81.104.23.219:1910",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1389405521,
"lastrecv" : 1389405521,
"conntime" : 1389401297,
"version" : 70000,
"subver" : "/Pennies:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 247806,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "86.13.4.140:1910",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1389405520,
"lastrecv" : 1389405520,
"conntime" : 1389402952,
"version" : 70000,
"subver" : "/Pennies:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 247824,
"banscore" : 0
}
]
A screenshot shows even without any possibility of stake interrupting the syncing of this wallet, it does not sync. I realize that the issue is not on the side of the wallet but the block chain instead.

Course, if you want the inflation to continue I could just revert everything back to the way it was before and wait for the blockchain to become so bloated the client never boots again, ever.
I vote we revert, and then nobody can bitch about whether or not there was damage caused by changes.