I've just spent all afternoon and a better part of my evening trying to get a P2Pool node running for ECCoin because I really wanted one of the 200k bounties... but I have come to the conclusion that it was a big waste of time

Since
ECCoin is based off
Peercoin, it will need the
yet-to-be-released changes that will allow
p2pool to work with these coins. There is currently a protocol incompatibility.
Weekly Update #75
There will be a change with the release plan of peercoin. I have decided to include a minor protocol change for future p2pool support so the release will become a mandatory upgrade release. There will be at least 4 weeks or more upgrade window provided to users. The previously planned v0.3.1 will become the v0.4.0 release, and the previous v0.4 development would become the v0.5 development.
Weekly Update #80
Peercoin v0.4 is going through final round of validation. Release candidate will be announced in a few days once all tests complete and build starts. The upgrade schedule will be fixed before release candidate according to what I described last week.
Oh well... at least I have my ECC vanity address:
ESnowLehcXPQoGFBCgS8ZHzCfHXW3VUk48