Wallet is not synching past 15553!
...maybe this will get your attention. Tried different approaches, one of which was using only the block explorer links as nodes. In this last attempt i got a beautiful "
WARNING: Invalid checkpoint found! Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade, or notify developers." message instead of the normal green "Synchronizing with network..." bar.
Are you sure you're opening the newest wallet? When we forked for version 0.4.5.2 I downloaded the wallet but neglected to delete the old wallet (0.4.5.1) and when I was trying to run the new wallet I was actually in the wrong folder running the old wallet, thus giving me invalid checkpoint errors and getting stuck. Took me a while to realize my own stupidity on that one. I'm sure you're not doing this, but you never know, worth mentioning maybe.
Honestly, if you've backed up your wallet.dat, deleted and re-downloaded the block chain and that didn't fix it, I'm not sure what else to do. Maybe try restoring on a different computer?
and if that was the problem, i don't think he will come back and tell us. not after berating us for not immediately helping.