Having issues reporting - this is causing me to give up on seti, the servers seem down all the time..

You don't have to give up on Seti, son.
If you wish, pick an alternate project, give it a zero percent workshare, and Boinc will do that project until Seti comes back up.

I have one computer doing Einstein right now.
The other 8 are just waiting for Seti to come back up and resume crunching.

Hmmm, I've got Orbit@home as an alternate project

Good luck getting work from them. lol