At this point I have to say I am f**king gutted I sold my 20 coins

Very understandable. I would be too.

As easily as far as I'm aware, though I've not tried yet.

what gfx card do you have ?

you can use the guiminer which is a piece of cake to use vs the other ones (about 10% slower by most peoples reckoning tho, I think because you can't fine tune it as much)

I'll post some links when I get home later tonight, I apparently made $21 overnight last night

only did it to mess around with, but at that rate I'll keep going!

I joined a different pool, which checks the best kind of coins to mine every 90 sec - it checks there value vs bit coins vs the difficulty of mining and mines the most profitable coins... then cashes them in for bit coins every every 24hours and pays you out in bitcoins
(I think... only did a bit last night then left it going)

http://middlecoin.com/

it's only been around a few weeks so I was dubious... but there's a load of people on reddit using it and happy with it so it looks ok

still waiting for my first payout, but it's only every 24hours so that's to be expected :-)

I think I'll give middlecoin a go for a few days. I had been using https://ltc.nushor.net/index.php

Bang that as a .bat pointing at cgminer

timeout /t 30
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer --scrypt -I 19 --thread-concurrency 21712 -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3334 -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD

above is what I use.

Middlecoin just paid me my first 0.006 Bitcoin, not bad for 8 hours.

Eagle, there are plenty of guides on the net to follow. If you're still stuck tonight I'll have the time then to help. Goodluck.

And find out exactly what GFX card you have. The settings to use vary wildly depending on the card you're using.

Is my Radeon 6870 still any good for this?

I might give middlecoin a go if it cashes it for me.

It should get you 300~330kh/s. As a comparison I got 510kh/s from my 6950 unlocked to 6970 and now getting 1475kh/s from my crossfire R9 280X.

My current performance is getting me on average $15 a day. So by my calcs your card would only get you about $3 a day. You decide if that's worth it.