Odd...
the Pool shows I got a transaction last night (around 9h ago), but it still hasn't arrived in my wallet.
Closed down the wallet and relaunched it..still nothing.

Did the XVG Upgrade maybe mess with things a bit?

I'm wondering this as well, and was going to post the question but you've already asked.
I do have a GPU, its just not very high end anymore.

My guess is that the answer will end up being a variety of different altcoins that are rather new, but I still would like to see the answers to your question.

I'd like to start some mining too, but there seems to be lots of stumbling blocks involved...
like, I've seen some applications, but also read some of them are definite things to avoid.

Anyone have a recommendation on which app(s) to use that would be useful for the widest range of coins?
Also - any good pools in Canada? Staying local would be nice.