The recommended products around here are Ceri-glass Polish and the CarPro rayon pads. Combined with lots and lots hard work, you should be able to improve your situation.
I've read threads in which others have reported the same problem you had with the griots glass pads. The consensus is that the CarPro rayon pads work much better.
There are a couple great threads on here about the process. I'll see if I can find them.