Great post! I totally agree never give up however sometimes you need to change direction. I've been doing this about 2 years + now and have seen a lot of people come and go in this business. And I'll be honest and up front and tell you some people just aren't cut out for blackhat seo and that's the bottom-line.
Now I know I might be shattering peoples dreams here and putting doubt into your mind but you really need to sit down and ask yourself some hard questions.
1. do I want to learn about things like DNS, Server management, Apache
2. do I want to learn how to code?
3. do I have a lot of time to learn this stuff
The mis-nomer is blackhat seo is EASY money. That's as far form the truth as you can possibly get. Now that's not to say that some peice of software won't come along that will make you a 50-100$ a day for a short time until it gets killed. That's possilbe on occasion. But rather I'm talking about the long haul and making REAL money in this business.
Now maybe you answered no to some of those questions and that's ok but I invite you to re-adjust your strategy. In the long run you're much better off making whitehat sites. The real money in blackhat is building automation system on very large scales. Automated domain registrations, keyword hunting, link spaming, site generating, server management and the list goes on. All needs to be automated to do things correctly.
There's a lot of money in whitehat as well. You can put up a nice whitehat blog in 2-3 hours that with a little expertise can make you 50-75$ a year. Now you free places like blogger and aol journals and you have no investment cost just time. These aren't going to get banned and will usually last a long time. Just make sure that blackhat is the best strategy for you is all I'm saying and Good luck.