Ran into a funny glitch that the barrel moves away from me (to the left or right) when I go away, and back to it's normal spot when I get closer to it's original location. Ran into this after I circled around the loop with the yellow walls.

Yeah, that's the glitch/bug I'm trying to describe in the description: "-The sprites move around, which shouldn't happen: they are static for now. " Maybe I should clarify it a little bit :)

Wow.... I'm just so confused on how this thing works....... Great job though!!!!

Just a random guess, I haven't looked at your code at all, but maybe, while the barrel isn't rendered (if you even do that), it resets it's place when rendered (seems like it might do that), but it expects the player to be in the first place it was rendered, the spawn point. So it moves weird because it thinks the player is in a different spot. If that is the case, you'd have to do stuff in the code where when the barrel is rendered, it makes sure the player is in the right spot. Like a said, a random guess, but it came across my mind last night, and it might be it.

I'm actually making a game using this engine, but with some great extras. Something great is coming up! (although I don't know how long it will take)

Actually, I don't! Thank you! And maybe you should check out the original tutorial, it explains alot more about the technology (if you're interested in that)