Objective-C noob: EXC_BAD_ACCESS with simple print method?

[dancks]

I'm going through an exercise in a mac programming in cocoa book, where there is a GUI and from a textfield I enter and to a list of strings displayed on a table. There are plenty of things that aren't working, the most confusing of which is I keep leaking data. First with NSMutableArray, so I decide to try a c style linked list for whatever reason. I got a prototype to work in C, apply it to my project, it leaks and seg faults whenever I try to to simply print out the string:

struct declaration in header:

struct que {
    NSString *sentence;
    struct que *next; };
typedef struct que que;
@interface linkedlist : NSObject
{
    que *top;
    int count;
}



-(void)print_list
{
    if(top==nil) {printf("In print_list, top lost its node!\n");exit(3);}
    for(que *a=top;a!=0;a=a->next) NSLog(@"\n%@\n",a->next);
}

I even published/archived the app to be standalone and ran it with valgrind and it didn't detect any data loss until I pressed "Check List" button which calls print_list.

entire linkedlist.m:

#import <stdlib.h>
#import <stdio.h>
#import "linkedlist.h"

@implementation linkedlist
-(id)init
{
    [super init];
    count = 0;
    top = 0;
    return self;
}
-(void)dealloc
{
    [self destroy];
}
+(que *)get_new:(NSString *)str
{
    que *nnew = 0;
    if(!(nnew = malloc(sizeof(que)))) {printf("In get_new, malloc failed\n"); exit(1);}
    nnew->sentence=str;
    nnew->next=0;
    if (nnew!=nil) printf("Good here\n");
    return nnew;
}
+(void)pop:(que**)p
{
    if(p!=0)
    {
        if((*p)!=0)
        {
            if((*p)->next==0)
            {
                printf("In pop, popping single node\n");
            }
            que *a = *p;
            (*p)=(*p)->next;
            a->next=0;
            free(a);
        }
        else
        {
            NSLog(@"In pop: Pop passed a null pointer. going to crash\n");
            que *a;
            a->next=0; //crash
        }
    }
}
+(void)pop_in_middle:(que**)n
{
    if(n!=0)
    {
        if((*n)!=0)
        {
            if(!(*n)->next)
            {
                printf("In pop_in_middle, que->next not set, not popping\n");
            }
            else
            {
                if(!(*n)->next->next)
                {
                    printf("In pop_in_middle, que->next->next not set\n");
                }
                que *h1 = (*n)->next;
                que *h2 = (*n)->next->next;
                (*n)->next=h2;
                h1->next=0;
                free(h1);
            }
        }
    }
}
+(void)pop_last:(que**)a
{
    que *h = (*a)->next;
    (*a)->next=0;
    if(h->next)
    {
        NSLog(@"in pop_last, h->next is either dangling or points to valid memory. About to leak\n");
        h->next=0;
    }
    free(h);
}
+(void)pushed:(que**)a pusher:(que*)b
{
    b->next=(*a);
    (*a)=b;
}
+(void)add_to_middle:(que**)a str:(NSString *)s
{
    que *nnew = [linkedlist get_new:s];
    que *holder = (*a)->next;
    nnew->next=holder;
    (*a)->next=nnew;
}


-(void)dropAt:(int) i
{
    count = [self check_count];
    if(top!=0)
    {
        if((!i)||(count==1))
        {
            NSLog(@"Popping top node\n");
            [linkedlist pop:&top];
        }
        else if(i>=count)
        {
            NSLog(@"popping last node\n");
            que *a;
            for(a=top;a->next!=0;a=a->next);
            [linkedlist pop_last:&a];
        }
        else if(count>=2)
        {
            NSLog(@"popping somewhere in the middle\n");
            que *a = top;
            for(int x=0;x<(i-1);x++) a=a->next;
            [linkedlist pop_in_middle:&a];
        }
        else
        {
            NSLog(@"in dropAt, something is wrong with the logic\n");
        }
        count--;
    }
    else
    {
        NSLog(@"In dropAt: Top is 0\n");
    }
}
-(void)place:(NSString*)str At:(int)i
{
    count = [self check_count];
    if(top==0)
    {
        NSLog(@"Top is initially null\n");
        top = [linkedlist get_new:str];
        if(top!=nil) printf("Good here apparently. Dereference:\n");
        NSLog(@"\n%@\n",top->sentence);
    }
    else
    {
        que *nnew = 0;
        que *a;
        if(i<=0)
        {
            NSLog(@"Inserting que at top\n");
            nnew = [linkedlist get_new:str];
            [linkedlist pushed:&top pusher:nnew];
        }
        else if(i>=count)
        {
            NSLog(@"Inserting que at bottom\n");
            nnew = [linkedlist get_new:str];
            for(a=top;a->next!=0;a=a->next);
            a->next=nnew;
        }
        else
        {
            NSLog(@"Inserting que in middle somewhere\n");
            a=top;
            for(int x=0;x<(i-1);x++) a=a->next;
            [linkedlist add_to_middle:&a str:str];
        }
    }
    count++;
}


-(void)print_list
{
    if(top==nil) {printf("In print_list, top lost its node!\n");exit(3);}
    for(que *a=top;a!=0;a=a->next) NSLog(@"\n%@\n",a->next);
}
-(int)check_count
{
    int i=0;
    for(que *a=top;a!=0;a=a->next) i++;
    return i; 
}
-(int)count
{
    return count;
}
-(void)destroy
{
    NSLog(@"Linked list about to be destroyed\n");
    while(top!=0)
    {
        [linkedlist pop:&top];
    }
}
-(NSString *)stringAt:(int)i
{
    NSString *b = @"";
    if(i<count)
    {
        que *a=top;
        for(int z=0;((z<i)&&(a->next!=0));z++) a=a->next;
        b=a->sentence;
    }
    return b;
}
@end

so yeah.

[dancks]

-(void)print_list
{
if(top==nil) {printf("In print_list, top lost its node!\n");exit(3);}
for(que *a=top;a!=0;a=a->next) NSLog(@"\n%@\n",**a->sentence**);
}

durr hurr hurr