Good guide! So far I've followed instructions exactly, but when I run mint.bat, ppcoind just exists without any error message. What gives?

EDIT: Okay, I see, my PPCoin-Qt UI now says "Wallet is encrypted and currently unlocked for block minting purposes only". So I guess that mint.bat ppcoind command should not stay running in the background. Now, how do I know that block minting is actually occurring?

EDIT2: See this helpful Youtube tutoral for walkthrough!