That's interesting, but you didn't tell us during which part of the block you were hopping. Meni's algorithm rewards miners who were present in the past 5-10 minutes *when* the block is actually found. So it doesn't matter how much you were hopping before, if you're not present when the block is found your reward will be significantly (in math language, exponentially) reduced.
i was hopping from some time after the start of the block until a max of 688000 total shares into the block. But i don't think thats actually how the algo works.
So you were in when the block was found. And that's what counts. The algorithm is described here: http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=4787.0