First, I appoligize for the bad language, I should of realized it wouldn't of been appreciated, guess I just wasn't thinking about it at the time. The link you provided did help me relized something, the flaw when the square root of each side was taken it didn't allow for the posibility of the negative root. Or at least I believe that's what the point of the site was, that's what I got from it at least. But I fail to see how this would make a significant difference in the outcome, since for the negative root you would simply end up getting -a=-b which is the same as saying a=b, maybe I'm missing something here too, I'm not sure. Unfortionately I do not have the time now to look further into this line of reasoning since so I'll have to try to figure this out tonight or tomorrow whenever I again have some free time. Thanks for the help so far, any other small pushes along the right line would be appreciated, for as you said, problems are much better appreciated when you solve them yourself, even if you have had some help along the way :).