Top ten reasons to hate - here it is, our new list........

[Lord Magus]

Oh, and does anyone know what those fossil things are with the imprints of leaves in them... isn't the name similar or am i completely off base here?

You mean the things whose shells look like leaves that EVERYONE got to look at in grade school, and they have the two tentacle/feelers..

I've always been positive those were troglodytes myself..

But from what I found:

trog·lo·dyte
n.
1.
a. A member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens, or holes.
b. A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish.

2.
a. An anthropoid ape, such as a gorilla or chimpanzee.
b. An animal that lives underground, as an ant or a worm. this is probably why we were told they wer troglodytes

As well as:

n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. ? one who creeps into holes; ? a hole, cavern (fr. ? to gnaw) + ? enter: cf. F. troglodyte.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.

<jargon> (Commodore) 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle. The term "Gnoll" (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported.

2. A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination "ITS troglodyte" was flung around some during the Usenet and e-mail wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride.