going back to the original type mismatch - still debugging forking issue, checkin to try on other machines

src/miner.cpp

@@ -895,12 +895,13 @@ void static VerusStaker(CWallet *pwallet)
             //
             int64_t nStart = GetTime();
 
+            // take up the necessary space for alignment
+            pblock->nSolution = solnPlaceholder;
+
             // we don't use this, but IncrementExtraNonce is the function that builds the merkle tree
             unsigned int nExtraNonce = 0;
             IncrementExtraNonce(pblock, pindexPrev, nExtraNonce);
 
-            pblock->nSolution = solnPlaceholder;
-
             if (vNodes.empty() && chainparams.MiningRequiresPeers())
             {
                 if ( Mining_height > ASSETCHAINS_MINHEIGHT )