Doug, you have to give it a few days at Hashcows, the coins aren't exchanged too quickly so it takes a little while to build up your payouts - especially the first day.
My 2nd day I got 46,000+ mintcoin with 2.2mh/s and that was with 4-6 hours of losing mining time due to betarigs.
http://poolpicker.eu/text.phpHashcows has the highest income averaged over 27 days.
But if you have the time and the expertise, you can make more money mining and exchanging altcoins yourself, no doubt about that.
It's just great having an automated system that pays better than straight LTC mining and which also helps with our value (I hope).