printing well for a few days now

Things have been printing well for about 4 days now, I'm starting to get a small pile of mendel parts. I've solved the phantom print layers by unchecking an option about adding a raft when i've turned them off. Also I found that my printer wasn't moving high enough or the material was swelling and I had to adjust height the print moved each level. Last problem to get solved were that some files seemed to print in the wrong direction causing them to squish, or simply become blobs of uselessness. After receiving some advice that I can reorient things in the control program itself, that issue should no longer be a problem. Hurray!