To address a few of the things you said:

Thanks for reminding me about putting some sort of error handling in. I had to grok this out of some code that it was integrated into, and as such, I forgot to fix a few things with it.

I definitely can see a lot of superfluous elements in the code, but that's because those elements were all there originally for testing purposes and I forgot to yank them out. Previously, the else clause was there to output the current key, and compare it to the key that was provided. Nonetheless, I needed to fix up some code in it anyways, so, thanks for looking through and letting me know where I tripped up.

Also, for some reason or another, when I hadn't chopped the data, even in something already split, it still wasn't matching. My theory is that there may have been an extra character in there that I may have bee nforgetting. Nonetheless. I appreciate your input, and I will put that in my code to get everything back to how it should be. :D