well, as it seems that the long chain wins out over the short chain - in regards to forks, I have switched over to the other chain.
I was able to sync my desktop wallet to the long chain.
I zipped the chain and put it in the download section of Bitbar.co
The good news is my withdrawals from cryptsy showed up.
The bad news is my mining efforts after 9/24/2015 23:51 PST are orphans.
I suggest everyone back up their wallet.dat (or just rename the Bitbar folder in your C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Roaming folder to OLD-Bitbar) and try again. (for Linux mv .bitbar dot-bitbar)
The chain backup (AppData_bitbar11212015.zip) works for Linux also. - as on widows you will have to move some files around.
Both my desktop and pool server are switched over, so that is two less peers connected to btb.cryptocoinexplorer.com
here are some nodes from the long chain:
addnode=108.61.10.90
addnode=84.74.66.206
addnode=167.160.36.162
addnode=173.65.129.85
I will try and get in touch with cce, mastermind and cryptsy.
Woo Hoo downloaded your file and syncing nicely, in fact I got my mined coins too happy days, let's hope the exchanges sort themselves out so I can sell em 😀