I just tried to compile & run the wallet, it finds connections right out of the box.
Update: It took roughly 40 hours to fully synch, with 2 connections most of the time.
@cryptsygotmebad: If still available, please send to C9R8yNU6J1cAQmsupAK9kpwAgU8R3CDthZ - I want to go fully cosmic, thanks
Otherwise, I think CMC is still traded on bter.com so you might consider going there.
@bitcoinear: One of the above list from July is still running, otherwise the two nodes from my peerinfo: 37.187.96.15:19990 203.20.114.252:19990