I'm in complete agreement with the comments above. We need some verification both of your credentials and the code before we can even think about switching to the new client. If the whole community is not fully trusting and willing to move in this direction, we'll just be forking it yet again, which is the problem we've had all along.

It is absolutely necessary that first we get either The Catman or Petr1fied to verify the quality of the changes made, as they are really the only authorities around to instill confidence in the changes. Furthermore, The Catman should officially hand over the reins to make this seem more legitimate, though if he is unavailable for contact, then this might need to be discussed more in depth.

Also, just a couple of questions:
1.) Are you associated with the group over at http://user.cent-help.com/? If not, and they roll out their code changes tomorrow, we'll have an interesting time sorting through all the code 
2.) Do you have the time and ability to actually manage the code if given that responsibility?

Sorry for the skepticism; I really appreciate your time and effort in support of Pennies, and I think you have some great ideas. Just trying to make sure those changes won't run us into the ground any further