And a bigger fish!

3 TH/s is really serious gear!
I'd say, as an unrequested advice, that with 3 TH/s you can use a much higher difficulty than 256.
I'd try with 2048 at least, lowering your fee to a little less than 0.3%
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if the pool goes wrong, with --disable-rejecting, the issue could be solved faster with a lower diff.
I'm not following you here... using a higher diff share, p2pool, for example uses 14K right now, gives two advantages:
- one for you, lower fees
- one for the pool, less shares to track, less burden on the servers
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