I think most people probably set theirs for every 12-24 hours. In any case, some of the high rollers have relatively high payout thresholds (which makes perfect sense), and when those are hit then it takes a while to clear them out.
Makes sense. And in the interests of honest disclosure, I'm back on Eligus because the other pool I tried out was running my rigs at only about 70% capacity. All sorts of little hops between servers, resubmits, timeouts, and other related weirdness add up.
Eligius: They may pay with a bit of lag, but they pay in full. :-)
As to the BFL person: If you can flash your firmware to 1.2.9 you will get your speed back. I hack those things out the ears, lots of data in these two threads:
Hacking Jallies to 32gh:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336782.0Hacking BFL Single/25's to 50gh:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=424604.0C