I found that the incident scripted input wasnt working properly (likely all the others that use snow.py). The sys_updated_on is being used to track when stuff is downloaded, but I noticed that the download sys_updated_on wasnt being ordered properly. The bug:
(remove the equals sign after ORDERBY)
http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Encoded_Query_Strings
orderby = "^ORDERBY="+self.oset['timefield']
orderby = "^ORDERBY"+self.oset['timefield']
cp -a ./bin/scripts/snow.py ./bin/scripts/snow.py.original
vi ./bin/scripts/snow.py (as described above)
cp -a ./bin/scripts/snow.py ./bin/scripts/snow.py.original
vi ./bin/scripts/snow.py (as described above)