I just updated with the nodes list from last page in thread, as it did seem like something is off with my wallet too.  I've had it up for about an hour now, tried to send to myself before my last post, that seemed to work.  But I didn't see any dl'ing of the blockchain and it doesn't say it's not synced. I did see one or two connections.  

Now I've had it up for about 30 minutes with the new nodes and see two connections but it's not syncing.