No, no... I said RUINING, not RUNNING... as in that other guy's message says that someone has spent millions in a few weeks to ruin other teams' chances.
As for the rest of that,
1) I expected the other teams to be weak; there's only one team there that was present during my title run three seasons ago.
2) All D-5 leagues are junk; they're all full of teams that just got here, and AI players that are space-fillers.
3) Take your time; the overall level of competition doesn't seem to ever rise much in division five, and you aren't allowed to relegate to Division six. Try to find yourself a set of four to seven solid guys, so when you do get up to division four, you can stay up here. You've got the right idea.
If you ever need advice, just directly reply to a post I make and I'll get a notification the next time I enter the forum. Also, Tangosz used to drop by here every once in a while and I'm sure he still does, and he's always happy to push a fellow V72 in the right direction.