Litecoin P2Pool mining not paying out? Problems?

[Neverest]

I started mining LTC via p2pool.exe & Scryptminer. It started paying out quite soon after about 0,01LTC per hour (40khash/sec).

However since earlier today (about 4 hours ago), I have 18000 shares accepted but no more payouts. The network is up as all other payouts are now confirmed, does anybody else get any payments?
Does this have anything to do with the price drops of LTC?

[temor]

I had a break of about 6 hours between payouts today. They will resume eventually, just be patient

[hiddenvalleyranch]

18000 shares? Are you sure?

I only get a share about ever 1.5 hours. The share count in your miner isn't accurate, you have to look at the p2pool window.

[chriswen]

P2pool gives small shares to your miner with adjusting difficulty.  But to get paid you need to find a p2pool block.  That can be hard.

[Neverest]

18000 shares? Are you sure?

I only get a share about ever 1.5 hours. The share count in your miner isn't accurate, you have to look at the p2pool window.

It's what the ScryptMiner GUI statusbar says, (it's up to 12000 after restarting) but if you say that it is incorrect, I will believe you The statuses in the Run_p2pool.exe window change so fast and don't make much sense to me.

Note that I have received one payment after over 7 hours of silence. Ha, while typing another one, 1.5 hrs after the last. Still wonder about that 7 hour gap though...