After weeks of reading documents, learning programs, and various experimentation, I'm finally at my wits end.  I want to do a simple graphic change that it seems every hacker here can do, but I still can't figure it out. 

Here's what's going on.  I can do a simple graphic change just fine, but I need to know how to separate bytes from reading off the same graphic.  Here's an example of something that I want changed:

See the two "8"s in "1988"?  The are connected to the same graphic.  Similarly, The "1" in "1 PLAYER GAME" is also the same as the "1" in "1988".  I want to disconnect them so that I can put 2009 for the year.  I was told that Tile Molester would help with this, but I'm not finding how to do it.  This is something I need for other things like changing the status bar at the bottom (like where the score is displayed), so I'm really desperate to do this.

Could someone save me and take me through how to do this type of edit?

Meaning that whoever told yiou that it aws Tile Molester's job was, simply put, wrong, or thinking of sonething else.

Thanks for the info guys.  Looks like I wasted a lot of time with Tile Molester.

Also, I checked the document section for notes from people that have already commented the code, but all that came up was that pointer data from Quick Curly.  Am I looking in the wrong place?