Hahaha. That's like every day at work. I either get sullenly suggested several wrong approaches from $student, or several (probably right) ones from various geeks. Sometimes, the hard part is stringing everything together and understanding what it is you have to do first before people leap gaily in to 'advise'.
/me buys in pile of O'Reilly books that don't talk back
/me buys in pile of O'Reilly books that don't talk back