Lol well now I tried to clone DogeCoin (to get a newer version of bitcoin-qt) and lo-and-behold!  The merkel hash is nowhere to be found.  Nowhere in the .coin folder.  Thanks for the thread, but I keep on running into stupid problems.  I'm not even trying to create a shit-coin, I was trying to create a coin for my own use entirely just to say that I could do it.  I guess fuck windows compiling, the coin I made worked fine on linux just couldn't get the wallet to work.  But now these new versions work differently it seems, like I said merkel hash = nowhere to be found.

Sorry for off-topic.