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more tomato questions

Hi all,

I've got a question on starting tomatoes indoors.  I'm using five EPS units
(4 12's and 1 24) and have planted several varieties of tomatoes, a
tomatillo, 2 kinds of eggplant, 2 pepper varieties, and four herbs.  I'm
begining to think that it wasn't such a good idea to mix all of these seeds
as now I've got a lot of tomatoes up, a couple of eggplant and some herbs,
but I have zero germination on peppers, two kinds of herbs, and three kinds
of tomatoes.  The seeds have been in for 11 days all the EPS units are
under grow lights now, although the one with peppers is pushed back away
from them and still covered with the hood as there are no seedlings up in
there.  All the others have SOME seedlings, and so I felt I had to put them
under lights.  The tomatoes that haven't come up are all seeds that I've
had for three years, and had great germination rates with in the past two
years.  Should I replace the seed, assuming that the packages got too wet
or hot at some point?  Also, I've really had poor luck getting my seedlings
successfully into the garden in the past two year's attempts.  I had great
luck with direct seeded tomatillos last year, though.  They outproduced the
tomatoes by far.  Is there a problem with starting tomatillos indoors?
Thanks for any suggestions!

Regards,

Laurie
San Francisco, zone 10
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