You account is active because you picked up the tokens. The system can't show payout in cents but only in the round numbers. It is not necessary to post in via PAL, if you post via Steemit and use #palnet as a tag it will appear in Palnet already. Another thing your payout depends on people who upvote you, those people should have Palpower, like for example your and my accounts. If someone is upvoting you and have no Palpower then it will not be reflected in the payout. Therefore as many people will collect their tokens the better.