Long story short, I added two nodes I 100% trust to relay my bitcoin traffic for me (They're both on 24/7), like so:-
But, now Armory gets stuck at 0 blocks, it manages to sync up from however many blocks it was back by (E.G., if it I was 55 blocks behind, it syncs to 0, then hangs):-
Launching Bitcoin-QT manually works fine:-
And help with why Armory refuses to go onto step 2?
EDIT:- Reason why I want to relay my traffic is I've noticed that my legitimate IP address seems to be attached to all of my transactions on blockchain.info, I could firewall blockchain.info, but, then I'm sure there's other companies that also log data like that. I'd prefer just to relay it through someone who I'm sure isn't publicly logging me. I know I could relay it through tor (or any other sock proxy), but, I care less about my anonymity (I.E. that everything that goes through those two nodes is me) than I do about people just not having my IP.