Don't know what it was, but now it's magically synced by itself!
{
"blocks" : 1199,
"currentblocksize" : 0,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 102.48914139,
"errors" : "",
"networkhashps" : 4039289671,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}
Lol, it was what OP told you in the post right after. The new wallet magically syncs itself without a conf file needed. Glad to see you resolved your problem though.