Thanks.. I was beginning to see errors all over the place.. DarkPool is currently on block 75100. When mining.darkcointalk.org was up, it's last block was 75073. I have the updated wallet 0.9.4.8, but it is currently out of sync saying it is trying to process block 75091..
Kinda glad I just started and don't have any real coins anywhere.. just sitting in the pools themselves, so I shouldn't loose anything.. with Darkcointalk down, I switched mining back to DarkPool and they are just humming away.. Hopefully they won't have to orphan everything they have mined for the last couple of hours!!