Haha, it's alright thanks for your suggestions!
Now that I'm mining anyway I'm a bit less pressed for help anyway

Err, unless I'm reading that wrong, that warning is just for if you've downloaded guiminer from another source. It doesn't say anything about the version you get directly from them. Regardless, I actually tried both their version and the official version when I read that on the BTC guild site. It still didn't work unfortunately.  

Aw shucks, is that what it comes down to?
I downloaded the version directly from BTC guild so it says it has stratum support (and that is the server I selected from the drop down list).
I'll look around for an updated version though, thanks.

Hm that seems like it'd be an odd requirement to not be mentioned in the program itself doesn't it? The CUDA miner option is built in to the interface of guiminer, it's legitimately under File, New Miner.

You may/may not be my new hero. Seriously, thank you so much for linking my thread in the other subforum! If there was a way to give you rep/karma/a virtual cookie, rest assured I'd be all over that.

Edit: So I got cgminer to work without a problem (well, aside from the fact that downloading it was a pain due to a crappy ISP). Personally, I think it would be better for me to use guiminer since I really don't know much of what I'm looking at in cgminer, but this certainly reduces the urgency of my search for a guiminer fix.

And I definitely applaud your efforts. Your point is fair enough, though personally (and I'm sure plenty would agree) I don't really feel that I have the knowledge on this subject to participate in an intelligent useful discussion.
I suppose I was being slightly passive aggressive since I'm hoping the reason I haven't found a solution to my problem is that I posted it in the newbie section (and not that there isn't any known solution).
Again, I do appreciate your diligence in taking care of the growing newbie pool.

Haha doesn't that imply that there's a time that you do want to post in Newbies?

Welcome!
Yeah, being stuck here is kind of a pain since it seems like most regular members don't check here very often. So if you have a problem, chances are the people most likely to help you aren't going to be reading your post :/

That's just one post every 1.25 hours! 

Yeah, from what I've read my GPU driver should include OpenCL compatibility so I figured updating that would solve the issue. Apparently not.
I've generally associated OpenCL with ATI cards and CUDA with nVidia cards which is why I thought the CUDA Miner may be the way to go. Unfortunately, that was problematic as well.
Let me know if you find a fix for the issue!

Hey guys, so sorry that my first post on the forums is due to a problem I'm having but I'm pretty stumped :/

So I have the 2012-11-18 version of guiminer and I'd like to mine on my gtx480 in the BTC Guild (using the US-Stratum server). All my video card drivers are up to date. When I attempt to mine with the default setting (CPU Affinity left all blank except for the first core) and the correct username, etc. I get "NameError: name 'OpenCLMiner' is not defined" in the lower left corner and am continually stuck at "Starting..." on the right corner.
When I make a new CUDA miner (I downloaded CUDA from Nvidia this morning as well), I keep all the setting the same, but when I click "Start mining!" nothing happens at all. The button is depressed, but the status at the bottom right still reads "Stopped" and I see no change in the window.

I've searched a bit about the the NameError (though I obviously still couldn't solve the issue), but haven't really been able to find anything about the CUDA miner issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated!