Concerning stake reward, TEK has built in stake reward reduction when PoS diff climbs. It is most likely that PoS shot way up due to the high amount of coin weight hashing on the network.
Given that this is the case, is it to a stake-holder's advantage to put off letting the wallet come current for a week or so?
Congrats to everyone who fixed the issue. They did a yeoman's job under pressure and should be proud of it.