" I have to worry about lay confessions though, the seal of confession is pretty important to a jerk like me! (thats a joke...)"
No joke for me! :)
The seal of course applies to lay confessors too. I should add, by the way, that when confession is over, we don't get a "penance" to do as such, but rater instruction in how to avoid sin again and perhaps directions to make things right if we have wronged another person. Traditionally, before we go to communion, we are supposed to approach anyone to whom we have given offnse wrongly and ask for forgivness. That can be a hard one. No three Hail Marys and two Our Fathers! Orthodoxy isn't for wussies! :)
Actually, word around the agora is that penance is a real possibility. As to what kind of infraction would warrant such, I don't know, I haven't been curious enough to ask. Nor have I been naughty enough to find out the hard way. And I don't know what all is entailed. But I do know that those under penance are barred from communion for the duration. So it would have to be a rather weighty matter, comparatively speaking.