Hmmm hmmm hmmm. Are you in Windows or Linux? This is probably a better place than PMs to get everyone else's feedback.
To confirm, in PM I asked how many active connections eeh had and clarified addnode servers could be down and it would not help. I don't know enough about the devcoin network to help much more other than to say try running it with -rescan but I think the client does that automatically.
to everyone else:
Can you download the blockchain like other coins? If so I can set up a link to download a copy later tonight for you.
I went back in and added all the receiver files from scratch and added the short list of nodes I had from the forum.
Maybe I'll have to try this in the CMD instead of the client, since there is no console in the client. But I'm still stuck and it's weird, because I've never had this problem before.