tired and full of dread

I've had a (short, but starting to feel like long) run of bad sleep nights - The Frat Boys Next Door had a party on Thursday night, and then over the weekend the baby's sleep went all to hell again. He's refusing to sleep in the crib (screaming, rolling all over the place) and waking up 3-4 times in the night wanting to nurse (every 2-3 hours). I can live with waking evey 3-4 hours and 2 wakes between bedtime and 5 am, but not 3. Last night he was awake continously between 1:30 and 2:30.

I'm considering looking for some 'gripe water' as I think maybe some of this is tummy discomfort at the addition of solids (certainly the great poop festival of 2007 would indicate the changes happening in the digestive tract are not always happy ones.) Has anyone used gripe water a) at all and b) for a baby past the tradiditional colic age? Maybe I should back off on the solids completely?

mr. flea said "maybe it's time to Ferberize" this morning, but I don't think it would necessarily work very well. When I tried to put him to bed in the crib last night, I wasn't getting "settle to sleep" fuss noises, but rather full-out "I hate this" screaming. Me standing there patting him didn't help - only actual removal from the crib.

I so don't want to go down this road again. Yet, here we go.