BTDT sleep trainers: help, please!

I feel like all I'm "teaching" him is that falling asleep means bouncing/crying/screaming/rolling for an hour or more.  We never had this problem before sleep training.  Did things get worse for you before they got better?? 

The first few nights of GNST he fell asleep in 5-20 minutes.  But going to bed was never our problem--our problem is the number of times he wakes up. 

Then on day/ night 3 he learned to stand up in his crib.  FML.  So the next couple nights consisted of lots of standing & bouncing on his butt for an hour while laughing/yelling.

On night 5, he STTN!  (11:15-6:20, after a dream feed at 11pm). 

Night 6 (last night): Took an hour to fall asleep, then still woke up at 1:20, 3:10, 4:30, and 5:30.  He goes back to sleep just fine when we give him a pacifier.  But I put several in his crib, and he makes NO attempt to retrieve them himself.  Just lays there and screams.

Tonight when I put him to bed, he wasn't bouncing/acting like a crackhead--just crying for 1 hour and 10 minutes.  I don't know if my presence in the room is making things worse.  He gets to the point of being sleepy and calm, then just starts screaming and crying, loses the pacifier, which makes him cry harder, etc...

Is there light at the end of this tunnel?  Tonight I almost caved and nursed him to sleep.