Goody. I am not alone!

Most definitely not! When reading your post, I remembered an "amnemonic" I used as a child to help me keep "complement" and "compliment" separate in my mind. A "comple-ment" can make something or someone "comple-te" As awful as that is, it worked for me! I won't even start on the whole "loose/lose" thing - hair-pulling is no fun! Then there is the wildly erratic and yet profligate use of the apostrophe, "you're/your" being particularly noxious. Still, when it comes to declining syandards of literacy, I guess that it's just a case of Kay Sara Sara, whoever she is.