I have a few questions regarding LTC mining in general:

1) 7970 GHz edition: my card comes with factory clocks of 1050/1500; using various thread concurrency settings and intensity settings, I think the best I ever manage is a measly 450khash. I have also had issues with getting GUIminer-scrypt to work properly on this machine -- I think the best I got was maybe 300-350khash. If someone has some suggestions, I'm all ears!

2) I have a laptop with A10-4600M that also has an HD 7670M in it. I can mine with both the iGPU (APU) and the dGPU using GUIminer-scrypt, but when I try to run cgminer directly, I can't get it to work at all. I tried -d 0 and -d 1 and both options just ended with cgminer crapping out with an error. Also, mining speed on both GPUs is somewhat slower than I'd like -- it starts at around 70-80khash but after a bit of work settings in at closer to 50khash. Plus, when my primary mining pool goes down (which is happening more often than I'd like), I want to failover to a second pool. I'm not sure if I can do that with any of the other LTC miners, but cgminer seems like the best bet anyway. Since I can get cgminer working with GUIminer-scrypt, it has to be possible to get it running from a command prompt. Where can I find the exact commands being executed by cgminer via guiminer?

Edit: Found the console command for the second part. Interestingly, cgminer 2.11.4 doesn't appear to work on the laptop, but the version included with GUIminer-scrypt works. Failover now implemented... and damn you OzCoin, get your stuff together and stay up for a week without problems or I'm switching all my 4Mhash/s to another pool!