i've changed the location of the program and the error is still occuring. I've closed my editor, browser, and Word. yet the errors are still showing up in the log. Any help would be appreciated.

i have nested for loops in the program... earlier today i had added the second one and forgot to change the counter variable so they had the same counter, i ran it, realized i hadn't changed it... changed it and then ran it again. is there any way that the server could be stuck in that loop still? that is the only thing that i can think of.

There's a max_execution_time defined in the php.ini config. It usually prevents things like this from happening.
However, if its set to 0 (no time limit) then I'd assume your script would keep running in an endless loop?
Check your phpinfo() or php.ini file to see whats up with that...