big update

[Shawn Carnell]

Apologizes for the lull in updates.  I wanted to make sure that this batch of updates was API compatible with the last update but there just isn't time.  Rather than get further out of sync, i've toss all our latest code out there.  I'll update the docs shortly.

Very quick summary:

- Lots of work on the reconnection logic.

- Bunch of new transactions.

- Bug fixes.

Shawn

[Shawn]

Docs updated.