Austin, TX has a huge Bitcoin community and very active:
http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinAustin/

I wanted to give an update.
I DID eventually see the BTC deposit show up in my
account a few hours later.  As suspected, it was probably
just the volume of transactions they were suddenly dealing with.

Hopefully everyone else ended up with success also.

27 confirms on the blockchain now.
Nothing showing in BTC-e blanace, and
not anything showing as "pending" on BTC-e either.

I' sent a support ticket to them about 1.5 hr ago,
but I'm sure they are super busy now, so not surprised
no response yet. 

.. I'll just sit and wait.

Same here also...
Just sent a pretty large amount to BTC-e ... and after 6 confirms
I am still not seeing it in my BTC balance.

Not sure about the QT client, but while running maxcoind, I can run this command with the following output..
seems to show my addresses and coin balances:

$ ./maxcoind listreceivedbyaddress
[
    {
        "address" : "mdc8mHJKqwjHHnPNDZMVAaqoQVXCFhn8Lw",
        "account" : "",
        "amount" : 0.30938061,
        "confirmations" : 188
    },
    {
        "address" : "mJBeEcJrJzXcuWnpsuVcL5gGiqrDZTK1P4",
        "account" : "",
        "amount" : 0.25136731,
        "confirmations" : 128
    }
]


hope that helps.