Snail - I know you said it isn't worth trying to solo-mine this coin if you don't have a big rig to do it on, but, when the pool crashes like this one has, would solo miners not stand a chance then?
Problem with that is the difficulty doesn't adjust instantly when all of the big miners just drop out.
Both Eligius and F2pool have the problem
when the daemon does not crash it will be no problem.. the problem is - it happens to all of them