Go, go, go: http://blog.nem.io/nem-community-challenge/Hi, one question:
is it unsafe to do just local harvesting?
No, but then you can only harvest on your local node (=NIS). If you want to harvest on a remote NIS and turn your computer off while it keeps harvesting for you, you need to activate delegated harvesting, connect to a remote NIS and then start delegated harvesting. Please see here for more information:
http://blog.nem.io/nem-tutorial-list/Please feel free to contact them and ask for integration

When runMon.bat doesn't work;
Start runNCC.bat first. After a couple of minutes start runNIS.bat.
Last step; start runMon.bat.
This doesn't make sense, pease don't suggest anything, if you are not sure about it.
Generally: Please switch to the NEM forum
http://forum.ournem.com for technical support. This thread is full of spam and it is a waste of time to follow all your concerns in here. We are glad to help you, but I think everybody who is seriously interested in the success of NEM doesn't want the NEM team to waste its time that much.