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I've been workign on and off with the language for the last 6 years or so and I actually got to go to Japan in the summer of 04 so I might be able to help ^_^

Well from my experience theres always a way around this usually in a case like this 'itte' would have one character representing it and another representing te, if there's more consenants then this there will usually be a slight change to accomidate. kind of like when they right or say bus it becomes busu.
Unlike english their words acomidate their rules instead of vice versa

Well the 'english' spoken by americans actually isn't english, thus why it doesn't actually follow it's own rules.

See english existed in what was know as britain for a long time then was influenced when they started pushing into other countries. Then there were the french and norma raid on the islands and eventual take overs that led to the banning of certain language being spoken which forced the people on the islands to have to change how they sspoke about and viewed cartain things. Finally it was influenced by the rise of the'nobleman's language' latin, which was the only written language in europe for many years and as such english became less important o those of rank and it bacme a common language that would later rise back to power.

End the end we go from callin an animal a cow and the food it becomes the same to calling it the french word for dead cows, beef. That's what most of the enbglish language is built on is things like this. Here's another little tift for you, sport is actually a french word, english didn't have a word that summed up all the actions we call sports, it was a very simple language that didn't complicate anything. That made me laugh when I took french in High School. ^_^

And your welcome lol. I love helping people with stuff liek this ^_^

I know HOW to I just don't do it well and I'm not even close to fluent yet but it's not a very hard language to learn.

Yeah, I am taking French in school as well and I am suprised at how simple it is. Well, their word for owl is also the same as our word "cool" (I mean the connotation, not "cold"). But yeah, and there are so many words that are close to American English. (Although my French teacher once told the students of a situation in which she was in France and accidentally said "mushrooms" instead of "champions."). I do agree with you that French and Japanese are pretty straightfoward. Sometimes suprisingly so.

I have another question:
Are there any specific rules for when to use Kanji and Hiragana and Katakana? Or do you just learn to spell each word with the appropriate characters? I know that Katakana is for foreign sounds and foreign names, but what else is it used for? In Japanese writing, I've seen alot of Katakana characters.

about an hour and six pages lol ^_^

Yeah the languages are very close in the way they terms things. I mean figure this the word we use all the time for anything related to japanese animation, mange, anything like that, ANIME is originally french.

Yes there are specific rules but I don't know them all. I do know that at Yamada High School I was told that most basics are written in hiragana but I didn't get an exact rule on anything.