as well as a third hour without receiving a single coin,this is looking more like a scam all the time

Read page 4 .
...if he could sync up the .conf is not the problem.
a few pages back mr. miraclecoin said that it is needless to make a conf.
Could there be another wallet open on your IP?
this was the reason my wallet got ignored here after working the first night over well.
sadly I'm not the only crypto-addict in this household.
but I like the idea somebody take care that this coin get a mostly fair distribution. otherwise it would be worthless.