Hi there, and nice to have you here. Firstly, in your situation I highly recommend you ignore Anonymous lists, Transparent are more than necessary and will be faster in almost all situations.

Planetlab Proxies are irritating, but not really that bad. To remove them simply find one, and then blacklist its class C address. To do this go to the following files:

"Charon\filterfiles"

Then open up gov&military.ini and add a line such as the following where the first two numbers are the first three numbers are the same as the Planetlab Proxy:

192.168.1.[0-255]

Then just make sure Charon is set to use that filter and you should be fine.

Getting fast Proxies is a case of a low responsne time as you suggested, although 1 sec may be a little low. 10 threads is fine, but you may have to go for 2 sec to find many results.

To make sure your Proxies are useful, there is also a keyword check in Charon. By default Charon only checks this with Anonymous Proxies so you will have to unset that option and choose 'Test against site' aswell. Basically you enter the urls you want to get to, and a keyword for them which is unique to the site. A couple of examples are below:

Site:
http://www.myspace.com/
Keywords:
Reviewd by TRUSTe

Site:
https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv...=true&rm=false
Keywords:
Program Policies

Site:
http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?lc=3081&id=2
Keywords:
Microsoft Passport Network symbol

If setup properly, you can test all the sites you like with any Proxy you like.