SCRAPPED???? Sheesh.. I never scrapped a page since 1995! Still no idea what's on the sites, but they still earn something! But sure are embarassed as hell to look back on them!
You have PR3 on some of these domains.. but you need a good bit of SE opt on em!
Na.. you sure don't need to join any military to earn your way thru college - just be persistant as hell and screw the "design" and pump most of your efforts into promotion!
Think this... once decent page that can, say produce $500/month from 20K hits, just needs 160K hits to do that $4K/month you wanted.