Yeah, I gave up on being completely honest, because I wasn't getting enough credit. Of the last 4 surveys, I got full credit for 2 of them, 9 and 6 bucks respectively. Last one was today, for the chocolate milk one (prolly sponsored by Nesquik). I'm about halfway ($28) to the giftcard after signing up at the beginning of Dec, so I no longer consider it a complete waste of my time, and the spam hasn't been so bad (gmail spam filter is pretty damned good... almost too good, but that's another story).
I remember someone mentioned something about Pinecone, which is much more exclusive and pays in cash, so I scoured Google groups to find a usenet post with an invite link. That was at the end of Dec, and while they (Karen) did send me an email on 1/29 about not having gotten any surveys yet... I haven't gotten any surveys yet. That video testing thing might have had something to do with it, as Firefox/Mozilla didn't like that Microsoft plug-in AT ALL. Hope running it thru IE worked.
Good luck with this stuff, everyone. Viva los CAGs!