Well since no one else is around who knows any details this is what I know. As little as it may be.

I don't know the internals but the pool went off on its own little tangent for a while. It effectively forked the blockchain I think. Maybe it lost connection to the other nodes?

I probably shouldn't have but I stayed in the pool & most of those blocks were found by me.

I don't know why but the height in the pool was left where it was so it didn't recognize any found blocks until the chain caught up a little while ago.

Edit: I got my wallet to sync by getting the 'addnodes' info from the LTC/BOB page on novaexchange. There's a link at the bottom of the page.
https://novaexchange.com/market/LTC_BOB/

Ah ok.

My wallet isn't syncing (no block source available) so i'm not seeing my payouts from the pool. There were quite a few since I was the only one in it for a while.

I'll leave my small miner in the pool for a while. See if it helps. I'm still finding quite a few blocks.

It depends. I dont have a big hash rate in comparison to some. It took me 1 week for the 1st one & then only a few hours for the 2nd. I just missed out on one as someone 'drove by' in the pool & found it instead of me after i'd been sitting in the pool for a while.

You can see the block stats from the pool here:
    http://pool.dobbscoin.net/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks

You can see other info here:
    http://explorer.dobbscoin.info/

Yay I found a block! Now we'll just have to wait & see if it's confirmed...

Mine doesn't sync either. There was a way to get the list of active nodes for a network but I cant remember what it was.

I've been mining on the home pool for a few days. My hash rate isn't huge though.