T-minus: 3 days, 18 hours.
Changed the sprite sheet to a sprite for the player, realizing that I only was using one of the sprites. Made some changes to the way sprites are addressed as well. Plus, had to manually add transparency to the sprite so that I don't have to mess with alpha layers and the such, if that's even possible....
The great news is that I now have a MOVING sprite displaying and staying in bounds! I made sure to try to keep it separate from the main class via a controller class, but later on I'll see how viable it is. For now, it seems very viable, and since it's only for the player, it seems like its progress!
For tonight, it's time to stop. Hopefully I get up early enough to work on it some more before work. I'd like to get the rest of the sprites created, added in, and spawning.