Looks like my pool stats did report normally after a couple shares were submitted, and I was also paid the other missing shares after I had restarted p2pool.  Now I have a couple of questions maybe you can help me out with:

I would like to have each miner use a non wallet address rather than configure each miner with the same address for better individual tracking.  I figured this could happen a couple ways, 1 would be to create a new receiving address in the wallet for each miner, but that seems to wasteful.  2.  I was thinking to set the pool fee to 100% and set the -a payout address and then configure miners with any textual username I prefer.

How would one do this will the least amount of effort?