I am done! I created a separate post if anybody wants to get a look.
Man, oh man! Talking about glitches and stupid stuff. MOST of the time, my problems are my own stupid mistakes, but at one point, Blender just stopped rendering lights. I chased it round and round only to realize it wasn't my fault.
But my FUNNIEST bug was audio that just kept playing instead of the one cut. I drove myself up a wall until I realized that one of my audio exports was actually ALL the audio cuts in one long file. Doh!!!!
Good luck and have fun, everyone!