Status is the same. As windharp said, the backlog is not the worse in the directory, but it's still significant. And there's no way to tell when somebody will tackle it...
As for your posts under the username daspop, it's probably a glitch that occurred when there was a version upgrade earlier this month, you're not alone finding your older posts under another username. Also, the forum data had to be recreated from a month-old backup some time before that, which would explain why your username didn't exist any more.