How could there not be a single confirmation in the past 9 hours?
One explanation could be that your client isn't updated to the most recent block, and thus isn't showing the confirmations that might have occurred. Check the transaction ID with Blockchain.info for a second source to verify that the transaction has been broadcast and does not yet have any confirmations.
Additionally, if the transaction uses INPUTs that themselves haven't confirmed yet, then even if your transaction has a fee paid it won't get confirmed until those INPUTs it relies on have confirmed.
Is the problem persisting yet?