What?? It's alive?! Was still in my watchlist and figured I'd come check out the last posts of the coin I was bag holding, and to my amazement the new wallet is synching without error. Nice job devs!
EDIT: Spoke too soon. Stuck on block 42492. Twice. Second time I cleared everything from the folder in %appdata%\ShaCoin except the wallet, so it was starting from a clean slate.
DOUBLE EDIT: addnodes in conf file fixed...
TRIPLE EDIT: ...or not. Seems like it's freezing up when synching every few thousand nodes and needs to be restarted to resume. It's running again now but it froze the first time on 42492 for over half an hour, was definitely hung. Anyone else having this problem?
It hung twice for me, and has been flawless since it got current. But it did lock up solid until I restarted it.
All up to date, it did it two or three times all told but it finished synching overnight, so not too onerous.
Frank: thanks for the full blockchain links...