ya i was thinking steam screwed up, but im inpatient so I uninstalled everything (after taking an hour to reinstall source and finding it still wouldn't work). Now things are just peachy because I have to update the steam platform before I can do anything and of course I get "we are sorry, steam is temporarily unavailable" which also makes me think they screwd up with the update and are trying to fix it.
The only thing that really annoys me about this is I had just finished an awsome texture with a good alpha, it had a bump map and everything, and then it made me update and now I can't test my texture
EDIT: steam is still politely disobeying me so I have resorted to setting my texture as my desktop..its so pretty...