Bitcoin client getting hung on certain block, won't sync

So I used bitcoin-qt client, and have ben using it for about 6 months. No problems, until 3 days ago, it hung up. Sitting there on synchronizing with network, out of sync. Won't go furthur.
I back up wallet, wipe out entire .bitcoin* dirs and start anew. Takes better part of the day, gets to the same exact block, block 294048, and hangs.

Code:

014-04-07 03:17:09 socket recv error 104
2014-04-07 03:17:10 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.8.6/: version 70001, blocks=294592, us=71.13.92.62:3769, them=185.25.48.57:8333, peer=185.25.48.57:8333
2014-04-07 03:17:10 Added time data, samples 140, offset +4 (+0 minutes)
2014-04-07 03:19:11 socket recv error 104
2014-04-07 03:19:17 connect() to 76.94.10.248:8333 failed after select(): Connection refused
2014-04-07 03:19:17 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.8.2.2/: version 70001, blocks=294592, us=71.13.92.62:54141, them=184.147.138.187:8333, peer=184.147.138.187:8333
2014-04-07 03:19:17 Added time data, samples 141, offset +3 (+0 minutes)
2014-04-07 03:19:17 nTimeOffset = +3 (+0 minutes)
2014-04-07 03:21:09 socket recv error 104
2014-04-07 03:21:35 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.8.2.2/: version 70001, blocks=294592, us=71.13.92.62:44739, them=174.129.130.96:8333, peer=174.129.130.96:8333
2014-04-07 03:21:35 Added time data, samples 142, offset +5 (+0 minutes)
2014-04-07 03:23:09 socket recv error 104
2014-04-07 03:23:21 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.8.6/: version 70001, blocks=294592, us=71.13.92.62:9032, them=67.173.233.228:8333, peer=67.173.233.228:8333
2014-04-07 03:23:21 Added time data, samples 143, offset -4 (+0 minutes)
2014-04-07 03:23:21 nTimeOffset = +3 (+0 minutes)
2014-04-07 03:25:09 socket recv error 104
2014-04-07 03:25:22 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.9.0/: version 70002, blocks=294592, us=71.13.92.62:18233, them=176.36.33.121:8333, peer=176.36.33.121:8333
2014-04-07 03:25:22 Added time data, samples 144, offset -6 (+0 minutes)
2014-04-07 03:27:11 socket recv error 104
2014-04-07 03:27:28 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.8.1/: version 70001, blocks=-1, us=71.13.92.62:59012, them=192.114.4.3:8333, peer=192.114.4.3:8333
2014-04-07 03:27:28 Added time data, samples 145, offset +4 (+0 minutes)
2014-04-07 03:27:28 nTimeOffset = +3 (+0 minutes)

Mind you, it has 0 trouble getting to that point from scratch.
No problems, I wipe out the machine all together, (it's an ubuntu VM), rebuild it from scratch, put my wallet.dat back, start it up, takes many hours, (overnight, a day, something like that) to re sync, gets to same block and hangs up again!

What can I do? Is it my wallet.dat file bad? I haven't tried syncing without putting my current wallet.dat back in there first. Is there something with this block? I doubt it since I can't find it posted specifically anywhere as some kind of issue. How can I get past this??!?!??!?!

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