[The balance] will be paid out when it reaches 1 BTC or after 1 week of not mining on the pool.
How about changing this to the balance will be paid out when it reaches 1 BTC or when nothing has been paid for one week, whichever comes first? For some of us with CPU miners it will take ages to reach 1 BTC, and getting paid at least once per week will be encouraging.
Cheers,