Yeah I agree.  I spent all of yesterday ripping on shitcoins, but this seems like a genuine team that's just having a hard time with a complex technology.  Everyone criticizing you is quick to mine the next scrypt clone, none of them appreciate that you are trying to do something entirely different.  So please count me in on your next project.

I will say though, that we need to uncover the root of this problem.  Even if you make mining private next time, someone will still try to set up a pool.  It's inevitable.  People will do it just to break your coin if it becomes valuable.  So there's no way to have a public blockchain if anyone with bad pool code can intentionally tank it.  I hope you can sort it out though, ignore the haters!