im putting up a 100k DOGED bounty for the electrum server fix, or code that leads to a fix. (i'll be actively working on it still as well)
others feel free to join in the bounty.
i've gone over it a dozen times, and i get the exact same outcome every time.. 
https://github.com/doged/electrum-doged-serverit starts up, signs into irc, connects to coin daemon, (gets parsing errors on tx's while creating db and headers), and it allows the electrum client to connect, including ssl.. 
im sure i've done everything properly thus far.
electrum client is working and is here (in ubuntu, run the ./electrum-doged):
https://github.com/doged/electrum-dogedthings i feel it may be:
(1) bitcoinrpc.cpp might need a patch that allows better communication with electrum (im currently looking into this)
(2) somewhere, i missed an entry for genesis hash, merkle, pubkey address, or script address in the server source code.
(3) im an idiot, and made a typo somewhere