Writlaus

Well, as I can remember, when I had set the seed and used the rand() function directly after that, it would always return very similar integers, no matter how many times I ran the program. I might be mistaken, but the problem only seemed to go away after I called rand() a bunch of times.

grumpy

If you used the same seed every time, you would have gotten the same sequence of numbers from rand(). The only way to change the sequence is to change the seed every time you run the program. Calling rand() a few times would have changed the position in that sequence where your program started using the sequence (i.e. it would have just ignored the first 10, but the ones after that would have been identical every time you ranyour program unless you changed the seed).