Just to fill everyone in on what's going on behind the scenes. We've been able to verify the synchronization issues that some users have experienced. For the last couple of days, we've been trying to get to the source of these problems. This effort has required many re-syncs, which take a lot of time.

One major problem is that there are some old clients that are serving blocks from a chain orphaned over a month ago. This chain is absolutely not relevant and has been checkpointed to irrelevance at github for about a month. Unfortunately it does rear it's ugly head by stalling the synchronization of new chains. Also, we just realized that these checkpoints haven't made it into the binary releases.

In the upcoming release, the official chain will be checkpointed exactly at the point of deviation so that the index for the orphan chain never has a chance to be accepted.

Also, we plan to make available weekly snapshots of the block chain so that users can start with an easily downloadable full chain.

Because of the time it takes to test, we anticipate a release of a new wallet in two or three days.