here's the finished product . use link to view from dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6hdpahlts3pp4z0/Melon%20Grab%20Logo.png

Funny that's the first thing I do when I install Inkscape on a new computer is activate those but when I actually looked they weren't active. Thank you I knew my problem was simpler than it was. That was definitely the cure. Thank you very much for the help.

It sounded like a problem that a simple search through the forums and the internet would solve, but that wasn't the case at all. All the searches could come up with was "how to get things to snap to a path." Not at all the problem. I've given in and decided to ask the forums with a new que...