a couple thing I worked around so far in case they are of some help to others:

are you getting "Redirection is not supported." ?  
    use -T when you run the miner.  this seems to be a curses related problem (used for direct cursor address to display the screen)

did you make your own  .conf file because you did not see one?
  put it in c:\users\yourusrname\AppData\Roaming\Ultracoin\Ultracoin.conf   it does not seem to look in the current directory first

on *nix, when you set a port in the .conf file, use netstat -an  to see if it actually is listening there.  if not, your .conf is not being read




devs here are not crap/worthless/garbage, etc.  they probably just underestimated the effort.  a professional dev, who makes his/her living
at this is used to releasing to a schedule for an audience of 24/7 users ... well, this could have used a couple of those along with a decent systems engineer

better to slip the date and give yourself time to get it right. at the very least they need to COMMUNICATE