My send threshold is set to 1.0 so does this mean my miner has to accrued 1 BTC before I get that into my wallet ?  Could take months !

Could someone explain what "Current shares" means in relation to miners.

Okay I will write down my account somewhere. Also can someone clarify these other questions.

If I stop mining or shut down the GUIminer software will I loose my gained bitcoins ?
If I delete my Miner and create a new one will I loose any gained bitcoins ?
If my computer crashes will I loose my accrued bitcoins ?

If I stop mining or shut down the GUIminer software will I loose my gained bitcoins ?
If I delete my Miner and create a new one will I loose any gained bitcoins ?
If my computer crashes will I loose my accrued bitcoins ?

What are the best practices for making sure I don't loose gained Bitcoins ? 

According to this link you sent me https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#Popular_Mining_Cards the BitForce Mini Rig 'SC' can mine at 1,500,000 Mhash/s. It makes my Quadro_2000 at 26Mhash/s look ridiculous. Also with this Bitcoin Mining Calculator, if I put in 1500000 Mhash's that the BitForce Mini Rig 'SC' mines at. This computer can generate $250,000 per month !? Is this true or have I got my numbers wrong ?

GUIminer gives me the option to use my GPU or my CPU's . It seems everyone talks about using the GPU and not the CPU. why is this ? Should I forget about using my 8 cpu's and instead just use my Nvidia_Quadro_2000

Thanks for the link, but it's still not clear to me how to decipher this list. My hardware is a Nvidia_Quadro_2000 and I am running windows8 on a Intel Core i7-3770k. 
Which miner would you suggest I pick ?

When I create a new_miner with GUIMiner I get these options:

  New OpenCL miner
  New CG miner
  New CUDA miner
  New Ufasoft CPU miner
  Other new miner

Could someone please explain to me what they mean.

Thank you. You were right, I needed to make my username as you suggested.

Hi,
I installed MultiBit and created a wallet. I then created an account with slush's pool at mining.bitcoin.cz in my slush's pool account I created 3 workers. I then installed GUIMiner selected slush's pool as my server and entered my user-name and password. The Device selected in my GUIMiner is my Graphics card (Quadro 2000) and then I have the choice of selecting CPU Affinity, I have 8 cpus to pick. I click start mining but nothing seems to happen. My machine isn't crunching and my task manager shows no activity ? Also the GUIMiner gives me the error of IO errors - 1, tolerance 2

Anyone know what steps I may be missing ?

Thanks in advance.