As there seems to be a heck of a lot of teething problems going on with 
BOINC at the moment, would it be possible to leave Seti Classic operational 
and not cut it off by December 15?

I believe there still are a few hundered thousand working off Seti Classic. 
This may take some of the weight off the BOINC project, just until the 
teething problems have been ironed out.

Just a thought.