I've written this little script that's behaving strangely (to me, but I'm not an expierenced programmer ;-) )

Puzzling this out will help you get more experienced. A useful technique to add to your bag of tricks is the practice of taking a problem like this and iteratively removing everything that doesn't have anything to do with the problem you're seeing. That is, boil it down to a small test case.

Quite often, during this process you'll have a valuable "aha!", and your experience level will notch up. But if you don't get the ahah, at least you have a small test case that exhibits the problem.

Posting small test cases will get you better answer here, for two reasons

• It shows that you've worked on the problem, which removes you from the "lazy bastard" category.
• It gives people something digestable to work with. What you've plopped down is too large to ingest.

So give it a try. Make a copy of the script, and start stripping out everything that isn't part of the problem. Then post that.