Thanks to all those that helped me work through the first STL hurdles today
and yet again i've found one more
this code

struct PDSBin
{
int num;
int sum;
};

typedef std::vector<PDSBin> Bin_Vect;

creates 18 errors wherever i create a instance of Bin_Vect like this
Bin_Vect TestVect;

the errors it give me is
Compiler Error C2784
'declaration' : could not deduce template argument for 'type' from 'type'

and its related to xutility line 45&47
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