It showed me that Trouble connecting message at first, but that went away once I started seeing the hash counter. However I still don't have any accepted shares. As far as I could tell I wasn't having any problems connecting except for the fact I'm apparently not mining at all. Anyway I opened up the log and I saw this message repeated every few seconds.
2011-06-14 01:22:40: Listener for "Deepbit": 14/06/2011 01:22:40, long poll: new block 000017ad9f8dd236
Followed by this message:
2011-06-14 01:22:26: Listener for "Deepbit": 14/06/2011 01:22:26, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
I have port forwarded the necessary ports. I have plenty of experience for that from PC gaming and doing the same for XBL and such. So I'm not sure what the problem is now.

I'm running mine through a GPU while I set up my mom's and we set hers up through CPU yet hers is somehow faster and she has accepted shares. How can I increase my speed if I'm already using my GPU?

GUIMiner is the Client I'm using. It doesn't say anything about how many blocks I've found. I went through the same Gamut I saw other people run through about having problems connecting. But the only thing it shows me at the bottom is:
Shares: 0 Accepted                                 550 khash/s

When I check the pools websites all the information is correct and it show's that I'm registered and connected. Just no work done on any blocks and that I have 0 shares.

I have a couple Pools started. Main ones are DeepBit and Slush's Pool. I have 0 Accepted shares from both and they've been running for at least an hour.

I've Had GUIMiner up and running now for over an hour. It says I'm connected and I have about 600 khash/s going for the pool. However, My share count has been at 0 shares accepted this whole time and has yet to go up yet. Am I doing something wrong? Please help!