Also, I think that as of Season 10 Cameron gets his team members, but in early Season 9 he was too busy idolizing them to understand that they might not want him pawing at them.

Oh, yes.

Of course he'd have to be completely blind to not get that Daniel's a prickly bastard. Maybe five ep tags of increasing crush, and then, wow! -- consummation! And then, oh... that wasn't a break-through, just an aberration. Woe.