Do You Know How to Outsmart a Spammer?

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I have very good services to give a boost up for creative & talented folks. The rules are simple: Services are for creative & talented folks to help get the word out about their works and to get sales. That the content needs to be family oriented, no drugs, no violence. For about 6 months I have been battling with spammers that have really wrecked havoc. It's not just one person - it's more like a team or group. First it was the automatic link submission page I had - the spammers would just add their "non-art related" links. I was able to just nuke the links from my admin page, so what happens? The spammers became hackers (or maybe they already were) and started putting permanent links. So, the auto link page became a manual page. Next I added an artists only classifieds service. Hackers got into it and totaled it. The website programmers had to create double admin pages to handle the hacking problem. So, now the spammers/hackers are placing their links into the guestbook. I've been blocking IP's and names and words, but still the spammers seem to think of something new. I have noticed that the same links are posted but from different IP's - thus it's a proxy server. Does anyone know how I can trace a person back through the proxy server so that I can terminatedly handle the attacks?