That is a bit of a bummer about the drop in profitability.  That said, it isn't all bad, at least for me.  This drop in profitability spurred me to switch back to xpool and do some further tweaking of my settings to try and drive up my profitability.  And wow.  Some of the stuff I have learned over the past few days, reading  and experimenting, has helped significantly.

As of right now, my 290 has been staying at, or below, 64C.  The vrm is staying at about 73C (well below the 90C I have seen in the past).  And the avg power draw is currently 172W.  I am showing a > 9,6 Mh/s in the sgminer display, but xpool is reporting my accepted avg hash rate to be 10.2 Mh/s.  I honestly did not think this was possible with a single r9 290.  Oh, and no HW errors, and 0.9% rejection over the last hour...since I started up with these most recent settings.

Looking forward to seeing what I can manage to attain with the 290x.