After adding the nodes in the conf file, I still cannot get the wallet to snyc. It just looks like this forever and the thing in the corner is spinning now. Not a single block has been synced in days.

Can you show me what you have in your torcoin.conf file?
Try adding into it:
listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=test
rpcpassword=test
rpcport=22669
port=23669
Also send me your debug.log in that same folder
You could always recompile as well with this before doing make -f makefile.release:
qmake "USE_QRCODE=1" "USE_UPNP=1" torcoin-qt.pro