Yeah, I guess I'll give it a few more hours to see if it clears up before I switch back to is-a-geek's pool.
Just talked to admin...he said the server is still having problems after the last difficulty and so he's going to be doing manual payouts.
Yeah, I got the same message. But now my miners are going crazy and showing that I'm getting an insane amount of shares (like 5,000 in the last 10 minutes or so).... obviously that doesn't seem right for the current difficulty, nor am I seeing the same results on the pool's website (actually worse than when shares were accumulating properly, and my hash rate is showing less than half of what it should be). I may switch back to is-a-geek until everything is sorted out.