I'd suggest going with some of the newer coins picked up by more stable pools. iSpace is pretty stable, and standard interface so its pretty easy to set up once you have registered, configured your workers, and added your mining address. The 'Getting Started' link on the dashboard menu gives you sample cgminer code. My tips at the moment would be for florincoin (you can add data to the blockchain), deutsche emark (its just popular, although there are going to be a lot of coins), Chococoin (I think this might gain a large following pretty soon), and unobtanium (its one of the rarest coins, no premine). http://ccc.ispace.co.uk/