Well, the interesting news is that simply adding the lines to the sources, recompiling, wiping the blockchain, etc etc .. Doesn't work. So there must be another trick to it .. I suspected there might be, but I don't know enough about it to guess. Will do some more debugging .. the code itself seems simple enough .. but if there is supposed to be a node in the network that does something special, and its down or not functioning correctly .. I cannot compensate for this.
Found out the same on my end also. It's definitely a learning experience. I looked at a number of other coins source code for clues and one thing is pretty clear, this one is really out of date. As long as Cryptsy is trading them and people are buying them all up I'll keep my pool going.