This is probably the most frustrating thing in c++ for me. I can handle compile errors just fine, but when I get a core dump, I get so frustrated, because I have no idea where the problem is, especially when I have 300+ lines of code to be looking at.

Although I have fixed it before, I guess I don't quite understand what it is or why its exactly happening. Could someone give me a decent explanation, and some tips on troubleshooting this prob.

A segmentation fault is when you access memory that doesn't belong to you. Usually it results from dereferencing a pointer that doesn't point where you expect, or indexing an array out of bounds.

Here is one link that might get you started
http://www.cprogramming.com/debugging/segfaults.html