You can also use -q 0 to disable the queue entirely.
Hmmm... at -q 0 Phoenix (current git running on Windows 7 x64, 64-bit Python 2.7.2) just keeps complaining that the queue is empty and never starts any actual mining.
The queue issue seems to be the reason why I get relatively high amounts of rejects when running against a local proxy; the proxy adds another layer of pre-fetching which of course makes the issue worse (and which you, jedi95, aren't responsible for at all).
I can confirm this, -q 0 is a no got currently.