lol, I hate the spores quest also. But, if you can hang with it all the way to 64, follow my path and it is a straight shot to 70 with no grinding. I will try to bring my fighter in to help you some and you can take her spores when they drop. Lady also now has that quest, so I will prolly not complete mine yet, to also help her and let her have my spores.
As for the Hot pink name, if you do not want your name to be pink, you can PM Rightclaw or Blaaaaaaaah and they can change the name back and you still keep the tag.
EDIT: also, I did Spider KQs to also help give me something different during the spores quests.
EDIT2: You look good in pink my manly-woman(z).
