Well after hearing some positive news from everyone here I went ahead and manually pushed out over 22000 coins from the pool.
there are no more pending payments, all payments have been processed and from this point out will be auto.
The issue is did everyone that was waiting on coins get them?
the pool reports they were sent getting them on the other side is the question.
please report back if you are now receiving coins regular if you are mining on the pool, also let me know if you got the coins I manually pushed.
I didn't get the manual payout either. Pending on the pool went to 0 but nothing arrived in my wallet.
However, I am getting the incremental payouts now.
I did not get the manual payout either (roughly 500 coins) ...
And I am running the latest build.
It's really not worth my time to troubleshoot... so it's OK.