@PW - I've been getting a lot of getwork failures from cgwatcher lately. From some general reading, it appears this happens when the pool switches coins. When not using cgwatcher, cgminer will wait for work and eventually stop mining. Do I need to setup my fail-over to another pool (or solo mine) until cgminer gets work from Waffle? I have 2 pools setup currently in my config file (waffle east, waffle west and clever in that order).

A lot of the comments seem to be due to the lack of understanding on how everything works (difficulty, variance, reported shares, etc). I've never trusted the shown hashrate (or any stats) from any pool front-end. I watch my miners directly, look at my profit over 24 hours and do the math myself. If the UI happens to match, great. If it doesn't, I'm not up the pool owner's @ss about it, I just wait a few more days and if it still sucks (or no communication has been sent), I switch pools.