quick noob question:
Is the privkey in a different format from that of a normal wallet?
What do you mean ? You can export private keys on Electrum and import them later on another wallet (blockchain.info for example) . a private key should begin with 5 or L or K as far as I know .
oh okay, just trying to import it to another wallet and was having trouble with it, just wanted to make sure the format was the same. and yeah I got mine with the letter L.
Thanks.