The "headers-first" feature, hopefully in 0.10, fixes this issue. With headers-first, the client will import much faster than torrent + import.
Sounds good. May it arrive soon.
Also reindexing takes a few hours at most on my machine, so probably you're running on something that might not really be fit to run a full node in the first place.
Like I mentioned already, as it is right now, it seems to be more suitable for geeks (preferably with a second computer). It shouldn't be like that. It should be also for the average user.