The fees will take the place of the block rewards. Hopefully Bitcoin is used much more then, so you can earn a good penny from mining. It will always be a continually balance between what can be earned from fees and rewards and the amount of hashing power. And of course some miners will drop out, but also the difficulty can drop.

Where does one find the wallet for the Coinye alt-coin?  Everywhere I seem to look it mentions that it will be pre-released, and the password distributed at launch, but I can't actually find that anywhere.

On a related note, I'm also pretty new to mining in general, and this will be my first coin launch.  That said, is it worth it to try to solo-mine a launch coin, or does the difficulty make it more worthwhile to mine in a pool? 

Part of me seems to think that it makes more sense to solo-mine...

--nyminer