yes 3hours 23 min from this post, and i haven't set up backup pools as i haven't learned that yet! oooppss 
just learned it using phoenix miner. Kinda tedious to do on guiminer.
Ya dood use cgminer. You can easily setup automatic failover.
I'm not using cgminer.. the forum link one has a keylogger. Anybody have a sourceforge link? that is clean?