thanks for the clarification. I payed a pretty high fee on the new transaction and it still hasn't seemed to come through.

Last evening I made a transaction by sending about 0.008 bitcoin out. I realized that the fee I entered was way too underpriced and the transaction stayed at unconfirmed all night. this morning I erased the transaction by the starting bitcoin core with zapwallett and rescan. the transaction was erased and I sent another one to the same address with a much higher fee. I checked the block chain for the transaction ID and it said it was double spent and unconfirmed?? I waited a little bit and it still says the same thing. I had the previous transaction ID saved for the transaction I cleared last evening... I checked it and it said the exact same thing: double spent, unconfirmed. I'm out of the house right now and I'll post the transaction ID's later. help would be appreciated!