Thanks for the responses on debugging, though...I swear I'm having the hardest time with that part...

Welcome to the wonderful world of programming. Debugging is usually the hardest part. When debugging, one of the most useful techniques I've found is to verify the pieces that I know beyond a shadow of a doubt are right. Quite often they are not and debugging the rest of the code won't get you anywhere.

Several of the other responses suggest adding print statements to show what is happening. Have you done this? Don't skip one because you know it's right.