I want to find the root of the problem, if there is an inconsistency, I want us to at least quantify it.
I do not want high pool fees for the long term.  I believe with auto-payment, the fees will drop back to normal within a month.

I dont think this is enough info however, to hone in on the problem.
We are going to need a whole thread, Im going to need a volunteer to be an arbiter, and I believe there is enough info out there between the miner, the code, and the wise to figure out where the bottleneck is- whether its in a nonce limit, or a wait state, or a solo-mine vs Pool.

Alex has done a lot of testing on his VMs and found he has the ability to scale his rewards appropriately, so I think its possible to break this problem down into sub problems.

First create a thread here:
http://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?board=6.0

Then if we could have a volunteer work with Pkman to break the problem down into quantifiable pieces, and ask him for more info, such as his getmininginfo start, duration, then getmininginfo stop, make columns in the sheet for that and figure out where the problem is.