I've just set it up this morning, it said "workers not connected" when i afkd for about 8 hours. When i came back it has 6 share and .00006469 btc but still says workers not connected. Guiminer has 3 workers working and i feel the settings are correct.
What is the real hashrate of your mining hardware ? If you are mining on your CPU or some very old nvidia card then "workers not connected" message is expected because CPU is way too slow (but your shares will still be accepted and paid).
ok this may be my problem, in the guiminer control panels the workers all switched to my i5 instead of gpu. Is is as simple as toggeling each of those to gpu?