Hi Vaughan,

Thousand million..that's called miljard over here, and our miljardairs are just as rich as US billionaires. Our biljonairs however....they have 1000 times as much as US billionaires!

I do not know about the update rate, but you could try GPUGRid. Other nVidia friendly projects are Einstein@Home and Albert@Home. Regular Seti@Home pays peanuts,
Collatz is more AMD friendly, but can be crunched with nVidia as well. Do not try Seti@Home Beta, because they do not export updates to their stats and do not explain why either.
I still have to get more than 200k credits on FreeDC and BOINCStats for Seti@Home Beta.