OK, so... couldn't get the mac wallet to sync.
i'll install the windows one on another machine today. I've read and researched this, and I feel it's a worthwhile endeavour. Throughout my life, i've always lived in the back-of-beyond; owned a farmhouse in France and many of my closest friends, throughout my life, have been farmers.
If I can get the wallet working OK (still apprehensive about the wider adopters taking this one because of wallet issues) - i'll be buying URO to hold, not to speculate, and presuming that this endeavour gets to where it seems to be going, i'll be making many charitable donations of Urea, using the Uro that I buy.
I seem to have been swayed. Well done OP.
On your Mac wallet - can you open Help -> Debug window -> Console and paste the results after typing "getpeerinfo" then pressing Return/Enter?
09:30:02

getpeerinfo
09:30:02

[
{
"addr" : "188.226.239.106:36348",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1402648183,
"lastrecv" : 1402648182,
"bytessent" : 1090,
"bytesrecv" : 3985,
"blocksrequested" : 0,
"conntime" : 1402648182,
"version" : 70011,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 12764,
"banscore" : 0,
"syncnode" : true
},
{
"addr" : "37.187.74.123:36348",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1402648183,
"lastrecv" : 1402648185,
"bytessent" : 229,
"bytesrecv" : 6955,
"blocksrequested" : 0,
"conntime" : 1402648182,
"version" : 70012,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:1.0.0.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 14776,
"banscore" : 0
}
]
still stuck at 12764