sorting through these posts, the root cause of the issue with the typos is that this stupid chromebook has this useless autocorrection feature turned on, which i'm not at all used to, being a laptop or desktop user. i'm used to scanning over written text for underlined spelling errors, and i'm missing a lot of stuff because it's autocorrecting on me. 

for example, a few posts ago i said "this regions". obviously, in context, i meant "these regions", but it autocorrected to "this", and i missed it because "this" is actually a word. if it hadn't autocorrected, i would have caught it as "thse regions" or whatever it was before the script clicked in.

so, i'm going to see if i can figure out how to turn that off....