Yeah, I got it last night.
Apparantly I had to so a
la $a0, 0$(sp)

I thought I did that before.
I tried SO many things, loading words, bytes, etc,
addresses of all sorts of offsets, you...

Alright, I got this assembler class, and we're doing mips, and such.
Anyway, I got this problem, see.

I have to read in a number in binary (sign magnitude), convert it to decimal, then convert...