EDIT: NEVERMIND! PROBLEM FIXED!

but one question: how in the future do you move the store?

say it's at whatever.com/store and i want it to just be at whatever.com, to move it into the main folder.
can i just transfer the files?
will i lose information, or do i need to reinstall the script??

I suggest you perform a search as i did see a few posts about this.

If you wanna move your store you need to adjust the config files in database to point to new directory of store.