Unfortunately I'm not sensitive to kryptonite;-)
I tried like you told to use the SignalTap II but it didn't work. The triggering didn't appear. So I tried to read and write the registers by my on. I started my code with writing in the statusreg of the master and the slave and i recognized that I'm not bale to write data in the slave statusreg. Why?
Maybe you can help my.
You also said that the overrun error accure because of missing sclk, could this be related with a false pin assignment? Do I need to turn on something on the cyclon III developement board if I useing the HSMCA port?
Thanks in advance!