"i've always been a shareholder who wanted the co. to actually succeed "
The only companies that succeed are the ones run by true visionaries and inventors and great leaders not by lousy businessmen.
In penny land 99% of ceo's are not visionaries or inventors or great leaders. If they were then their stock would be trading on higher exchanges long time ago. AERP has been a penny stock for almost 5 years now and still is a penny stock and will be a penny stock for a very long time.