I just bought 2 books myself  

I don't think not waiting for confirmations would do any harm, as long as you let wallet shut down properly before closing down your machine but I'm not certain.
The wallet.dat is the all important file, from what you are saying it sounds like it was corrupted somehow and that you replaced it with a new one. It is always good practice to make a backup copy of wallet.dat after making changes in your wallet and keeping it somewhere safe. If you have backup copies of wallet.dat you should be able to replace the one that your wallet looks at and you will regain control of any coins that have not moved since the backup was made. If you do not have backups and have somehow overwritten your original wallet.dat file, I think your coins may be gone!   

Can someone let me know how many Digibyte blocks are mined per 24 hours & how many coins per block.....yes I am trying to workout how many coins are released each day...thanks in advance

Jared, theres still some old information on the first post at the DGB vs Bitcoin

Miningfield Skein Pool has also been updated.

http://dgb.miningfield.com

Restart the wallet wit the -rescan or -reindex command.

OMG guys i just checked and found 250k dgb in my wallet date transaction is 5 november i think i won the contest but now the price is 40sat.lol
well Thanks DGB 

yes, you won the October contest! 

 

We are still working on the OS X compile. We are sorting through some bugs. Stay tuned. Cheers.

4.0.3 Release Notes:
*Disconnects all v3 clients
*Adds checkpoints
*Block propagation relay changes

4.0.0 Release Notes:
* Changes occur @ block 143,000
* 15 Second Blocks
* Scalability to match Visa TPS by 2021 & continued scaling through 2035 (See scalability projections here)
* Minimum TX & Relay Fee set to 1 DGB to prevent attacks
* MultiAlgo Difficulty adjustment code changed to make 51% attack much, much harder (See commit explanation)
* Transaction propagation changes based upon Microsoft research
* Reward adjusted to accommodate faster blocks, still stays the same (21 billion DGB in 21 years)
* OP_RETURN data increased to 80 bytes to allow embedding more data (like document hashes)
* Safe mode warning error fixed
* Check point added
* Private key compatibility issue fixed ( addresses from the DGB paper wallet address generator now work properly)