I've been playing micro ($.01/$.02 6max) NLHE on PokerStars for the past week. It's not going terribly, but to be completely honest I'm pretty disgusted with my play at the micro level.

I've found raises to be almost pointless. I have to raise too much to get cut down on the number of callers and those larger raises when the flop misses me completely. As a result I'm limping now more than I ever did in SNGs. Small-med pocket pairs... limp. Qs-As, raise. It makes me sick doing it, but I know if I raise my Ts that I'll get busted by one of the three folks who call that raise with K4 or A2.

Should I be raising these properly and just accepting the losses that come with people making bad calls?

Play seems very passive to the point where I am having a helluva time trying to figure out what these guys are playing. I have AK, flop comes Q9A, bet out down the hand to find out he's holding Q9. Same guy gave me most of that back a little later when he was calling my bets with MPGK the whole way down. I never seem to know where I stand in the hand at a given time. This has lead to me either losing more than I should on a hand, or not maximizing my profits on a hand.

Is there anything I can do to adapt to such erratic playing?

The last one is quite likely variance. But I'll throw it out there... I've lost about $12 calling idiots who come to a table with $1.xx (max buyin $5) and just start going all in till someone calls and they either double up or bust out. I've had AK beat by A3 (a bad move calling an all in with it, I'm sure, but I had just a few hours earlier been beat by the following, AA beat by 25(SOOOTED), QQ beat by QT... just relentless. this has probably happened to me about 8-10 times so far. Not once have I won one of those idiotic all-ins and every time I've had, by far, the best hand going in.

Should I just stop feeding the fish? Or call if I'm holding a powerful hand and leave it to chance that I get paid?