I guess the only question left to the general community is whether or not there are others who are now pretty much unable to use Eligius reliably, as it my case. I mainly want to know this out of curiosity. i hope that others are not having the same level of difficulty connecting and using the pool without incident. i don't wish that on anyone except maybe the odd troll or two.

First: I love Eligius. I appreciate the work wizkid is doing, and until recently, I never had a problem. However, since a couple of days, my two Dragons aren't behaving well on Eligius. The Ants do their work like little Ants should. But the Dragons dropped from 1+ Th/s to 800 Gh/s. Changing the difficulty, playing around with the switch, changing cables - nothing changed anything. Out of curiosity, I switched the Dragons and two Ants which were working with a very constant hash rate to another pool. At this other pool, the Ants showed the same rate as with Eligius, but the Dragons both showed again 1+ Th/s.
So I really don't know if this is a stats-problem due to the ddos - which I doubt - or if there is something else going on.