jpn, I have changed my code to what you suggested and it compiles but unforunately I am setgfaulting on an invalid call to show(); Do the object names need to be named like an array (ie, label[1]) or do they stay the same (ie, label1). I have created the UI in designer and it wont let me input square brackets into the object name. If I must name the object names as arrays I would have to modifiy the .ui manually.

Is there anyway to determine the exact line that the program is failing on, gdb's output was:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1223964144 (LWP 19874)]
0x0804bd1b in QWidget::show (this=0x0) at /usr/include/qt4/QtGui/qwidget.h:463
463 inline void show() { setVisible(true); }