Steam Treasure Hunt makes me hate Shatter.

So, the Steam Treasure Hunt is pretty awesome. They get you buying games and playing them for just a bit to make you like them, ad give you contest entries for it. I have loved it thus far, but today's Shatter challenge has me angry. So, I'm supposed to get 11.2 million points in Bonus Mode. That seems reasonable given how the contest has worked so far. I had to play the first 3 worlds in Story Mode to open up Bonus Mode, and that was tons of fun. But where I've fallen off the bandwagon is in bonus mode itself. 
 
I have played Bonus Mode for over 3 hours now, and I can't get that score. That alone isn't the reason I am mad, it is that Bonus Mode simply is not fun (especially for 3 hours straight). I also believe that Bonus Mode (and possibly Shatter as a whole) is broken in how the collisions are programmed. So many times in Bonus Mode, have I had the ball fly right through my paddle, giving me the points for the hit, but still causing me to lose that ball. When I say this, I mean through the center of my paddle. I'm not barely missing here, I am clearly not missing, but the game says I am.  
 
Here comes my programming complaint. This issue where the balls pass right through my paddle makes me believe that the game judges collisions based on when a frame is rendered showing the ball touching my paddle (or another ball or a wall), but since my game is running at about 25-30 frames per second, when the balls really get going (in Bonus Mode specifically) they skip through my paddle. So I think that for one frame, my ball is barely away from the paddle, and in the next frame of animation it is behind my paddle and is then hit downward. 
 
Sure, that 11.2 million points is asking a lot of players as well, but it has made me see the flaws in Shatter's design. I like that game, but this would be like me telling you to do the broken parts of other great games. I hate Bonus Mode now. It is the evil blue men from UC2 of Shatter. The game would be better without it, and I wouldn't know how they programmed the game if Steam hadn't told me to get such a high score on it. So I have given up.
 
Anyone from Giantbomb here having this issue? Or is it just me and my computer? If you have any tips, maybe I will still try to get this done, but I doubt it. I would rather play something I enjoy than continue to bash my head against this wall for a contest I know I won't win.