Thanks for the info.
What I'm unable to figure out, and nobody gets what I'm asking, is if blocks are discovered by the pool without me finding a share during that "round", since as far as p2pool is concerned I didn't do anything. Do I just lose out in the long run, or does it somehow magically average out over the course of a month I'll get comparable payouts from a centralized pool in the long run?
Again, this is in the case of getting 0 pool shares, I realize that once my miner finds a real share, its all good, I am talking about the case where the hash rate is too low to find even a single share after many blocks go by. When I do find a share, I'm only credited for a few hours of mining, my miner finally found one, and if I had been mining at a normal pool I would have gotten 3x that amount. So if I just stuck with it in p2pool for a month, would it average out even though I am not finding any shares for multiple blocks?