Quick Update for the forum:

There are several of us that are looking to take control of CASH.  We simply ask for your patience while we sort out the hows and who's of the take over. 

As to the original Dev, I'm more inclined to say something happened to him.  I doubt very much that he would have just abandoned this, and it was way too sudden.  There was no pre-mine, no insta-mine, 10 whole blocks for testing then he released it.  That equated to 1000 coins, which in the first few days people were making more than that per hour.  Not much of a chance of a dump and run by the dev.  Wouldn't have made much.

As to the low price/interest in the coin on exchanges.   Well, that can be fixed just by getting the word out about CASH.  Dev was supposedly in process of getting publications out, but I only saw 2 articles posted on some "back water" crypto websites. 

What you can do to help:

Basically, for now, just keep mining.  I just checked the links for the pools listed in the OP, and surprisingly, all of the are still working.  Not all of them have people mining at them, but there were no errors.  Spread the word.  I've put my Hash where my mouth is, and turned off the anon account over at  http://cash.minebig.com to prove my support for this coin.  (course I blew another GPU last night...  dang power outages)

Wallet error:

If you are seeing the "checkpoint is old" error, ignore it.  Everything seems to be working fine.  Once we get things switched around, we'll implement a new check point system and that error should go away.

From me personally:

I want everyone to know, I'm commited to keeping this coin going.  I've burned a lot of hash, lost 3 GPU's, 2 PSU's and a MB, along with a TON of electric these last 2 months.  I've yet to sell a single coin.  I'll post my transaction if I have to in order to prove it.  Maybe I'm a fool....  Who knows...