Moving the coins probably won't help you, but yes, it would reset the timer.  You could try downloading a new wallet and just move your wallet.dat file to it.  But I don't think it will work.

My wallet is totally fucked too.  I'm part of the team and the dev is aware of the problem.  I've tried everything you can imagine and there is no solution so far.  I've spent at least 18 hrs fucking around with it.  I even sent it to another team member who confirmed the problem.  Somehow 50k disappeared today while I was testing.  I received maybe 1% of the minting I should have before it shut down.  I have literally tried everything I can on windows.

I managed to make 2 transactions to Mintpal of 100k each.  Each transaction took about 30 minutes.  So my balance is 200k less, but mintpal never received anything from me.  Pretty soon, I'm going to be in Mint debt at this rate.  So if I were you, I would maybe sit tight and not do anything until someone figures this shit out.  All I'm doing is losing coins and a lot of time.  I knew I couldn't be the only user dealing with this.
However, I don't think anything is being done about it either.  I think this is going to be huge problem once everyone starts minting.  During the minting process is when things go to shit.  There has to be a bug.

I'll help if I can, but I'm so irritated I'm just ready to delete the whole goddamn wallet and move on.