K, got ride of everything in the folder except for wallet.dat... restarted the qt, it started redownloading a lot of the blockchain... stopped at about the same block as before... only difference is instead of 5% of my balance being unconfirmed, about 70% of my balance in now unconfirmed. 

I also tried to addnodes ... but the command i remember working in the debug console didn't work and I can't seem to find my protoshares.conf file... sorry to be asking so many questions, but how do you addnodes without the protoshares.conf?