So just to update you guys, I am quite close to completion. There's still a long ways to go, but compared to how things looked when I was starting out, it's very close :). I am thinking I will be able to release the full game sometime in late January, early February (so expect to actually see it in March :P).
I also won't be around much for the next 2 weeks to 2 months, as I'm currently in school (and its as balls-breakingly difficult as AAG seems to be to a lot of you, which means I'll be pretty busy grinding textbooks). So if I don't respond to PM's or forum posts, that's probably why :).