Hi bigguy, sorry to learn you are having problems syncing. First, don't worrry as your BERN are safe and the BERN network is very strong.

Another OSX user recently contact me on facebook with the same issue. I moved a fresh peers.dat file for this person to try to http://berncoin.org/peers.dat which you may wish to try. To do this, download the linked file and overwrite your existing peers.dat file with it and relaunch your wallet. The peers.dat is in your BERNcash Appicaltion Support directory along with your wallet.dat file. Please note you wallet.dat file is unreplacable. Use caution not to delete your wallet.dat file.

However; we did have to clear the blockchain and resync to resolve the issue for this person. If the above peers.dat solution fails for you, you may wish to try this. To clear the blockchain, clear all files from the BERNcash Appplicatation Support directory EXCEPT your wallet.dat file and relaunch your wallet.

The path to your BERNcash Application Support directory on OSX is /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/BERNcash/

If users of Windows are reading this with a similar issue, the above mentioned methods apply to you as well and your Windows BERNcash data directory is C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\BERNcash\

Linux users, /home/<username>/.BERNcash/ or /root/.BERNcash if you installed as root.

Hope this helps bigguy! Thanks for you interest in BERN!