I'm just going to throw out two options that you should consider if you haven't already, although there are likely other options as well.

My suggestion #1: Transfer your monies from AP to Stars, and move down.

My suggestion #2: Come to #flopturnriver (there's info about this in a sticky in the community forum).

It drops off a bit from there, but all but the last one is a quality starting hand, so I'm obviously doing something really wrong.
This is not necessarily the case. In February my worst hands at 200nl were KK, AK, AA, JJ, 86s (wtf), AQ, and QQ in that order over more than 30k hands. Variance happens, but the mental impact it has will kill you on a small (in terms of buy-ins) bankroll.