The plummet continues... >10% fall from today's high since Mt. Gox opened. No news to break the trend in sight, many holders traumatized by the hack.

Mt. Gox hack is only the surface of the problem right now....some fundamental problems (ie. lack of recourse to criminal activity) with the currency are contributing to the sell-off.

obviously as that's where the funds were trapped.

Yes . . . but setting the price so high, for right now, limits the number of BTC that can be withdrawn.

"Fundamental problems" does not account for the upwards trend of the last days.

There is so much money locked up since Mt Gox went down that the last few days are mostly irrelevant.  Tradehill was less well known and most of the people in there right now are techie types.  Mt. Gox did have some investor types because of its higher profile and these people are going to price systemic risk into their trading. 

No one will fall for your trolling.

Is that so? If so, I stand corrected. Is that a temporary thing or what? Will we go back to the $1,000 standard once MtGox launches and a new trading price is established?

Mt. Gox will be shortly irrelevant so I'm not sure the point of your question.  Only a fool would trust their money to Mt. Gox.