well, i finally got muffet working with the new time stamps. I ended up getting so messed up i ended up needing to throw all my edits from the past 5 days and starting over. It definitely went easier this time, but in fixing it, i realized there were some issues that i baked into slov, and then worked around in my previous iteration of muffet, so fixing the problem in slov meant redoing a decent amount of basically all of muffet. It wasn't that bad, since it was the same thing just in about 15 places. running the program it it hung then loading acid to figure out where it was hanging then making the change. compile rinse repeat.
then i had to re add the changes for the rss validation i added before.
anyway. it seems like it's working now.
i sware to god if it's not i'm going to blow something up with a kilo of thermite.