yamaha strat

alright..thanks for the attempt, if you knew i know youd be helping :)

Anyone else who knows the unsolved mystery here?

i have 6 screws on the front of the bridge, infront of each saddle....

no "pivot" screws though...i see them on my brothers guitar, but not on this.

Your friend's guitar is equipped with the original Strat trem design. The bridge assembly pivots forward (only) on the six screws you describe. Note: to do this those six screw cannot be tightened all the way to the body (but this doesn't sound like a problem in this case). At some point, Fender/cloners replaced the six-screw pivot design with two large pivot screws and the bridge was changed to a floating design (bends up and down). For your friend's Strat, the trem springs are supposed to be tightened enough to pull the bridge assembly back all the way flush to the body. When properly set up, this type of trem will only bend low (dive) and NOT high.

It seems as if three springs ought to be enough to do the job for light strings (0.09 e-string). Make sure the springs are actually attached to the bridge (they hook into what's known as the inertia block, mounted beneath the bridge). Next, if the two screws attaching the spring claw to the body are not tighened as far as they can be into the body, do that. If that doesn't work, maybe you could borrow a digital camera and take a couple pix above and below the bridge to show us what's going on.

Alright, well heres how it went down. Her parents wanted the guitar back today, so i was forced to give up my attempt at repairing it..but!

I did fix that crooked saddle, which was done simply by turning the thing that moderates the action.

I also managed to fix the action, and put it at a pretty good rate, very low.

Now some of you are saying... ok..so isnt that all you wanted to do Mr. taso?

Well, I wanted to bring it home, and make sure nothing was buzzing, and the intonation was good...but hopefully adjusting string height doesnt affect intonation?

Either way, thanks a bunch everyone...realllly appreciate all the advice and help youve given.

Changing string height usually changes intonation. Hopefully not enough to be a problem, in this case. Intonation is really easy to set on these bridges (if it's the one I'm picturing). You could check it next time you see your friend and adjust it on the spot, if you bring a decent tuner (or have much better ears than I do).
Isn't it satisfying learning to fix your own guitar? (or someone elses in your case.)

yes..hopefully.next time we hang out ill check it out

and yes it is very satisfying anddddddd gratifying actually trying to do it yourself.