I started it up after letting it get 10 days behind and it is stuck on block 21997. I tried adding new nodes, but that made no difference: 21997.
I am running v0.8.6.2-g878787-beta-irc-fix wallet.
What can I do to blast things loose? It says it has 7 active connections, but those connections don't seem to help the wallet process block 21997.
Can anyone help?
You are on a very old wallet, and its on the old dead fork, you now need the current wallet from the OP or official site, and have to delete everything APART from wallet.dat in your appdata folder
There is a lot that I still don't understand about this. But I did what you said and it seems to be working. I am already up to block 30894. I really appreciate your help. I was afraid that I was going to lose all the coins in my wallet before this was all over.