I suggest cgminer or bfgminer. They're precompiled for Windows.
However Slush's pool is having problems right now, they just got DDoS'ed. So their network is having issues. But if you use Slush, stay of Getwork, they're charging 10% fees to the people who use it.
Wait, so all this time that I have been trying to figure out how to get Stratum to work with CPUminer you mean to tell me that it doesnt actually work with it? But also, there is an easy fix and I can use cgminer or any other new miner that has Stratum and it will just default to my CPU if I do not have a GPU?
Im on Mint (laptop) and Ubuntu (desktop). What command line miner is the best that already has stratum?