afyer several days of down and re downloading, stopping and restarting the client, and finally re-extracting from the dLed RAR, mine synched up and i got a few mil CCX home from exchange. this is my .conf, good luck!
listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
maxconnections=100
rpcuser=yourusername
rpcpassword=yourpassword
addnode=54.186.134.64
addnode=23.97.129.104
rpcport=55887
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
Your .conf is the same as listed in the OP. Hopefully more people will follow your lead.