Thank you everyone for your replies :-) I am so relieved (after throwing up).
The error was being returned by bibtex and was nothing serious 0_o 2008/4/25 G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 24.04.08, Glen Whitehead wrote: > > > The latex error in response to viewing pfd (pdflatex) is "misplaces > > alignment tab character &." > > TeX errors are sometime quite cryptic and the additional layer of LyX->Tex > sometimes makes it even harder. > > It looks like the error is hidden in the preamble or a package or a floating > object... > > In such cases I usually: > > 1. look into Document>LaTeX Protocoll, as this is somewhat more verbose than > the error boxes. > > 2. Export the docuement to LaTeX and run latex manually. Chances are good > that this will locate the spot of the error. > > As mentioned by others, View>Source is a good help too. The preamble > (both, LyX produced and custom) can be seen with the "whole document" > option of the source view. > > Guenter >