I've had no problem syncing as long as I move my wallet with coins elsewhere, start up a fresh download of the blockchain with 0 coins in my wallet, then close the client and move my wallet with coins back.  Problem is it doesn't stay like that, I will stay synced for a few hours and then I go off on my own chain.

I'm still here watching this thing.  I have like 80k I mined at launch, this looked promising so I held, and now they aren't going anywhere for the time being.  Caught a dump of 100k PESA on bittrex at 100 satoshis, risk/reward ratio felt right if this coin can ever get back on track.  If nothing else, release a wallet with a flat 2% interest or whatever just so the market can be reopened at bittrex and people can move their coins.  The dev team can play around with perfecting the dynamic interest system all they want after that.