Have you ever considered just doing something else? Seriously. Adsense seems to be causing you so much pain, going by your many recent threads.

Unless you're asking these questions just for the humour value, in which case good job.

I find most major places like Yahoo/Overture to require little more study than AdSense.

If you read their help/intros/etc., they should be fairly easy - as a matter of fact, generating code for the same adblock takes me about the same amount of time on Yahoo or Google or Chitika or whoever else.

ronmcd: try reading what i type next time. i PRAISE adsense in this thread.

Something I forgot to add.

For most of us, they aren't scary or confusing or unfriendly.

Some just don't serve relevant advertising, and others don't cover certain niches as well as they could/should.