Thanks Pistachio. Tried as you suggested using gwp on bitparking and bitminter. Still no hashes.
Settings:

Ports = 8332,8332
Server addresses   = mint.bitminter.com,mint.bitminter.com
user:pass = enginehead_blade:pass,enginehead_blade:pass

also keeps restarting every minute or so!

user and pass are correct.

I haven't tried a stratum proxy yet. Will try that next.