6 hours and it's transferred and resolved, from start to finish from old server to new, ev1 has my domain online on the new nameservers long before even Whois centers have their info updated. I just leased the new server today (paid for not 8 hours ago) and blam, it's done.
good thing rsync works even faster.
and by the way... ensim: the new version does appear better. if i have nothing good to say after I give it MY test-drive, I won't say it, but there's a chance this time, I think, someone came up with a decent admin interface.