Ah that must be it.  My GetInfo says blocks: 18651.  Is it just a matter of waiting for awhile like with BitCoin, or is there a command that I should use?

Edit:  I just refreshed GetInfo and the number has increased to 19047.  Looks like it's a matter of time and it's just much slower than I expected.  Alright, looks like I jumped the gun.  Looks like I'll wait for awhile.

Thank you for responding, I really appreciate it.

Hello, all.

I'm not sure where else to ask this.  Since Bitminter is the pool that I use, I thought that this was a good place to start.

First, I think it's clear that I'm doing something wrong.  No drama, okay?  This is NOT a "blame bitminter" post.  This is an "I am a newbie & need help" post.

The issue that I'm having is, I'm not receiving the namecoins.  This isn't a huge deal to me because I don't plan on trading them, however, I would still like to know what I'm doing wrong.  I may change my plans later & take part in the .bit stuff, since I already run both Tor and i2P relays while my system's on.

Here is the first address that I used:
http://explorer.dot-bit.org/a/Mwx3MEiRdfbtKu2rVHRZM8ae7C8EguWF7P

and the second:
http://explorer.dot-bit.org/a/N1yc9AMJhZub5ocNmVmqZ5tQteWA9K5RWk

I'm using Namecoinj v1.5 as of the time of this posting.  My firewall is currently disabled, and I see that NameCoinJ says that namecoind has 8 connections.  I've used the NamecoinGUI program (both of these are obtained from Namecoin's wiki site), and I've ran namecoind on its own.

Here is a screen shot of the list of accounts in NameCoinJ:
http://imgur.com/k7CPm

So clearly I'm kinda dumb and don't know what I'm doing.  How do I download the coins so that they're in my wallet, and not floating through the blockchain void?

edit:  I should mention, I've used the namecoind -rescan option, and that doesn't seem to do the trick.

This is actually around the price that I've expected bitcoin to be at.  That is, around $3 to $5 USD.  I don't think that any reasonable, critically thinking person ever expected them to stay at $20+ per bitcoin this early in its existence.  The fact that there are fluctuations around this price point really isn't concerning to me, because currencies fluctuate all the time.

What I do like is seeing are the new merchants pop up, like BitBrew and BitMunchies, in addition to online services like AirVPN using the BitCoins.  This keeps people spending, mining, and the services growing.  This is a good sign, in my opinion, that bitcoin is a healthy currency.