Used the blockchain torrent and now synced all the way down to 12 days and still moving.
Nonetheless this experience leaves me deeply concerned that that 0.9.3 win64bit is broken or the network is struggling to support full new blockchain sync downloads properly. I expected to need to be patient, but when a sync hangs for 24 hours with no block source available, and refuses to budge after multiple client restarts, something can't be right...