Can anyone explain to me how to solo mine, i am a noob and obviously tryed to follow the settings in conf file and minerd but the miner wont start up as i must have done something wrong. is there any video tutorials for windows or linux to solo mine?

my wallet is stuck syncing at 1018 blocks, just not moving from there. If i download the blockchain link and replace the file in my app data folder will it then sync up?

so all i need to do now is download the new magi wallet update and it should all sync up and ill get the coins i have mined eventually?

i have two wallets, one with coins and one without. the wallet with coin is not syncing and i am expecting coins to be transfered into them from a pool from yesterday. the wallet with no coins has synced to the network with no issues. my wallet with coins keeps flicking from being on block 590 to 460 to 100 then back up to 600 to 500 and then appears to give up trying altogether. will this issue eventually work is self out over time or is this wallet doomed to be out of sync forever?