I don't see a disagreement here: Miners forked the network because they did not receive mnw messages.There's this guy named Evan that disagrees with you.
There is more than one way to cause a fork when your coin has more than one way of validating it's blocks...
I repeat: Only miners can fork the network, passive nodes can't - claiming this is like saying: Using Bitcoin 0.7 wallets will fork Bitcoin.
If Darkcoin network is vulnerable to nwm propagation issues we need to fix that - otherwise it will be part of the next DDos attack.