Not sure how that video would help at this situation
I unplugged everything and started over. Shared my wi-fi connection, which auto-configured my ethernet adapter to a private address scheme(192.168.137.1). So, i plugged in my raspberry pi, booted up. Got an auto-configured IP of 192.168.137.6
I'm still stuck with the same problem: I can ping virtually anywhere(example: 192.168.137.1(ethernet network), 192.168.1.1(my modem on wireless network), and various websites and IPs on the internet) but cannot connect through apt-get commands(even "sudo apt-get update") and through any of the 3 pre-installed web-browsers it comes with.
On the apt-get commands I get errors saying they can not connect to "some web-address.com" so I was thinking maybe name resolution for the site, but sadly, when I ping the address alone, it resolves the address and pings successfully.
I'm stuck again
Edit: I'm also thinking about just installing a fresh version of wheezy or whatever it's called.