Me and Thirtybird have extensive experience with n factor coins...he is the yacminer dev and I've been mining yacoin for ages, as well as UTC and others.
I can post settings for all cards, but we already have the conf file generator thirtybird developed in the op.
Not trying to be negative but I have tried the config generator and it never gave me a working file for UTC. I even tried using the settings the generator gave me in the working conf file I already had. Still didn't work. That could another reason people are turned off.
As for the people complaining about the price, with the exception of the occasional P&D most, if not all alts will be stuck until the price of BTC recovers.