Bootstrap is not working with 1.4.17 QT. Please, check it.
I'm checking it now.
Can you confirm that your copy of the bootstrap.dat file has the correct sha256 checksum?
As the bootstrap.dat post says:
To verify that you have the right file its size is 3789137849 bytes and its sha256 hash is ec1c102a0a3c4b0f0f47ff25a28bb96d935d374bd4168e0600acae22b42b0e63.
The file should be called bootstrap.dat, and it should be in the same folder as your wallet.dat file.
Take a look at the end of the debug.log file in the same folder. You should see one line per block it imports. Look at it again a minute later. Is it importing blocks? See how many blocks per minute it's importing and you can figure out roughly how long it's going to take to get up to block 3551279 (which is the last block in the bootstrap.dat file for now).