Russian Submitter suggestions.
 

Is it worth it, or is hand submitting better?

Hand submit to the biggest tgps, autosubmit to the smaller one.

hand submitting is worth it if you have the time and are only promoting a few things.

if you must submit say 20 galleries a day you must automate.

in my view RS has the best auto submission system, and also a very nice "hand" submit system called human emulator which at least does most of your form filling.

TGP submitting in general is a drag, the traffic returned is not very productive, and IF you are going to do it you must do it on a big organized scale to make any serious money.

to answer your question, yes RS is worth 25 bucks a month, it has a few bugs, but the russians are good.

now IF i could just get someone to write a script that would spider the web to find appropriate niche toplists, and then autosubmit them.

now that would be something!