Yeah I use to pool hop months ago but it kinda died off. I don't think its profitable any longer to do so with hopable pools switching their reward systems to a more hop proof algorithm. I tried mining LTC yesterday. I let it go for 24 hours. I got roughly 40 LTC @ 0.006 BTC = 0.24 BTC . With mining bitcoin I get 0.33 BTC per 24 hours. So I guess on my setup LTC isn't the most profitable.
I may give p2pool a try. What would be a better pool to mine at. Currently (don't shoot me) I'm mining at deepbit. I know I've read that its the least profitable pool.