I got everybody's messages and emails.  I will recycle the seed nodes and the block explorer and unstick the network.

I could turn on automated checkpointing as well, I am reluctant to do so because it adds some centralization, but it might be some extra protection.  I will wait for feedback from you all before going this route.

A big part of the problem is that there are still a lot of people trying to connect with the old version of the client and it periodically overloads the seeds and is causing synchronization issues.

As another poster noted, I did lose my job over all of this coin stuff ;-)  So, I have been heads down spinning up a company.  I am building an exchange and working on getting some project work.  But I am tending to the coins as well.

Give me an hour or two to do some maintenance on the servers and lets see if that helps.  I will also push the updated build today and then after that based on your feedback I can either turn automated checkpointing on as a temporary measure, or leave it off.