I am done. I am now 8 days past when I should have started minting and I have gotten zip.
I am going to stash the coins I have securely and forgot about them for a few months, see if this shit magically gets its act together while I am gone.
Good luck folks.
*in before all the useless comments. The coins are well past 20 days, the wallet is not locked, never has been, it is connecting just fine, I did sacrifice a chicken to the Mint wallet gods, etc.
I was just about to recommend sacrificing a chicken, but you did that already. One thing I've noticed is the wallet is having intermittent connection issues on my machine that is W7 and 'not quite factory spec' in terms of its registration to Microsoft. On my other 'factory fresh' machines the wallet works like a champ. Maybe try a whole other computer? Just something to try before the cold storage option.