Yes, gen=1 will mine through the wallet. Remove it if you want to use minerd because otherwise minerd will throw an error since your port will already be in use. You can also just forget about minerd by opening the yenten-qt and navigating to Help > Debug window > Console and type:
setgenerate true 1
(1 because you are wanting to only run one thread. Change this number if you want to run more) This will allow you to mine directly through the wallet.
Thanks everyone who helped!
I5 3230M
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