Sorry to hear about your aunt Jetaholic, but welcome aboard the folding crew here.
The missing wu's might have something to do with my wireless router and/or wireless adapters in the machines. Im gonna look into it. The wired ones seem to be more reliable.
As far as the increase in my increased output, I tasked more machines to smp clients that were running the graphical one. Even some two-core Pent D920's are able to finish the smp in the timeframe allowed.