Yeah, I have a working cgminer installed as well as Phoenix2. I get 10% high hash rate with Phoenix2 though. So, cgminer is definitely my last resort.
Which kernel do you use in cgminer and phoenix2 ? I used to run poclbm+phatk2 phoenix2 + phatk2 and my cgminer setup is on par if not faster than the old setup.
Also make sure its not an old cgminer version in case you havnt updated, alot of updates happened recently.
Lastly, try increase you getwork queue size for phoenix2 from its default value by 1 and see if that works better.
Thanks for the ideas. I'm going to give it a shot later tonight. I have to go help my sister-in-law move. Oh how I wish that mining software could be a priority over helping her move.

Hehe np
Just something to remember when using cgminer make use of the following launch switches by using phatk for 5xxx/6xxx cards and diakgcn for 7xxx cards, cgminer -k phatk/or diakgcn --no-submit-stale --no-pool-disable then the rest of the stuff you can enter once as it prompts then in the gui simply goto pool management to configure the backup pools then to settings and write the config, next time you simply need to run cgminer without any extra switches.
If you knew all that, ignore what I said.

Okay. So, I finally got time to update cgminer and make sure everything was working fine. I think I'm good to go now.
I ended up having to help my sister-in-law move not only day night I made my original post, but also, after leaving there at 11:00 p.m., I had to return to help again the next morning at 7:45 a.m. So, I wasn't able to mine for here for at least 48 hours. I doubt I'm going to make the 500MH/s cut for the bonus. Bah!