recently after I cram new lists and go back to see the whole list of new items, none of them are hi-lighted green to indicate they've been studied. This is even after I refresh a few times

I just realized this is only happening for the skritter.cn site. It works fine for ios.skritter.com

Interesting--that would indicate that it's a change we've made in the last week. Do you mean that it works when you cram the words on ios.skritter.com or when you look at them there?

okay, you know what Nick, I guess that was a fluke, because I just crammed a list on ios.skritter.com and then when I went back to the page that has all of the items in that list in a column, nothing was hi-lighted, even after refreshing and waiting. About an hour ago I when I switched from skritter.cn to ios.skritter.com, it did what it was supposed to do right away, but just now it didn't.

....however, when I click on individual items from that list, it shows that the item has been added, and indicated how "learned" it is with the green bar.

this is still going on by the way

Hmm, the status seems to be working as it should from testing... though just to be clear 'green' doesn't mean 'added'. It means 'learned'. If the text is bold and the background is a light grey, that means it's added but not learned. Could you give an example of a section and a word that's doing this?