So if ANYONE reading this has ANY NEW INFORMATION please share,

Nothing new here, but links to the posts you referenced only by date:

TradeHill's site is down ~~but they are going to reopen it to allow for further withdrawal requests~~, per Jered of TradeHill:
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67284.msg788927#msg788927

The last mention of how refunds would be processed (manually, via e-mail versus the site coming back online)
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67022.msg796244#msg796244