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That is not how ALL of the pictures turned out. A lot of them turned out fantastic. I was simply putting the pictures up that showed a problem that I wanted to know how to fix. I am so frustrated right now...I just wanted to know what the problem was with those few pictures. Period. They did not all turn out that way. Jeeze.
If they didn't all turn out that way, why not put up the ones that turned out correct? If you're asking for assistance, people giving advice can ONLY go off the information you provide. And that information is in the form of pictures.
And no I don't suspect the all turned out that way, but from your original post, it seems the only way for you to get in "control" of the lighting, was for you to be able to use the flash on camera (which isn't bad). However, that shouldn't be your only option; in fact using your on camera flash while you had a lot of ambient light is an option as well. Using your flash you could have lit your subject, and STILL had a fast enough shutter speed so as not to allow the ambient (natural/artificial) light to overpower your subject (lit by the flash), as well as the environment (light by the natural light). However the biggest problem IS that they are blurry - and its not the shutterspeeds fault on that one.
This I think - in BD's special little way - was the point he was trying to make: that even though you have read the manual, exhaustively, and are reading Understanding Exposure, the information hasn't totally synthesized as to what it all MEANS.
Getting frustrated is fine, everyone gets frustrated. But you can't get frustrated at someone who is trying (again in their special aholish way) to give some advice. All of it may not all be constructive (the napkin bit was a bit uneccessary) but the majority of it is spot on. The rest of the advice in the thread is fine - but it really hasn't addressed the major problem here.