Why do you think autosubmits are worthless?
I utilize russian submitter for normal picture galleries, and throw the big ones into hand submitter. Tends to work well. I love the hand submitter.. They need to let you buy that tool and put your own submit URL's in it, and have a quickie thing that generates recips for the pages. I'd just build my own MGP list and do it that way.
Then again, I tend to not cheat and I make clean (granted, sometimes too clean so I don't make shit) galleries. No way in hell I'd have time to go to each TGP each day (even the top 30), and make seperate html pages w/ recips.
Otherwise I guess I could spend a hell of a lot of up-front time making my own server-side stuff that would work okay, but it'd be a lot of work when I can purchase something for a lot less than the time it would take to make. Considering it allready takes me a few hours to make 2 galleries/day and do submitting w/ autosubmitters and such.. I can use all the help I can get.
Just wondering what you consider superior to submission aids.. I'm definitely all ears! Havn't found a better way to get some traffic yet though.
peace,
-Phil