Now I see 3097 is hashing at a fraction of the rate on 3096. What port should I use?

You may also want to drop stratum+tcp://vtc.poolmining.org:3098 for now. Focused on the Multi Rig-GPU and added it and watched it fail before I read the fine print. 

Just started last night and Vertcoin results for my hasrate are depressing. I will give you a chance and see what happens over the next few days.