But, my GUIMiner just sitts there and says "starting..." without actually doing anything. It did this for 16 hours. Yes my Slush login info was entered, yes it works on their website. Hopefully an advanced or intermediate user can tell me why my miner won't mine...
Not sure about Slushs Pool specifically, but in other pools you also need to configure a "worker access" for you miner program, which is usually
different from your pool account. You use the pool login to manage your intermediary BTC account and such, while the miner uses the worker access to request work and submit solved hashes.