How would someone with my level of experience and equipment go about finding out or confirming which compounds they have synthesized? You guys can pretty much gauge my knowledge, not totally clueless, but not very confident yet either. As for equipment I have standard distillation apparatus up to 1000ml, a really bad ass 500mm graham condenser, erlenmeyers up to 1000ml down to 50ml, nice stirplate/hotplate, all kinds of stands and clamps and shit. So, not too much of either thing, but enough to get started. It's just that I listen to Shulgin talk and he talks about they were going after a particular compound and the methyl group was attached to the 4th position when they wanted it to be attached to the 5th and I'm like how in the hell do you know that?!

What are some ways that compounds are verified? Are they all destructive? I'm not afraid to read, but I can't really find something general. I have a hard time finding the docs I want to read because I think I don't search right. For instance, I've spent a lot of time searching for some documentation about the stability of aldoximes. I've read about their formation and everything else I can find, but no hint as to stability.

Those things go hand in had, IMO. Since I suspect that I will often have to figure out myself ways to check what I have and be able to deduce stability from looking at the chemical structure it's self.

Not asking for a spoon feeding, just some advice.

Chemists didn't always have modern methods of instrumental analysis, and those techniques that were used in the past are rather effective though comparatively tedious  You need to start reading some old textbooks such as:

http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/vogel3.html

and some others available from:

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/index.html

since after some studying your questions will be a lot easier to answer    The end results from the effort applied 

......find out all its physical properties....i.e. density, boiling point. solubility. appearance, smell, melting poin, PHt....and then do tests for functiona groups, aldehydes or ketones (bisulfite test), amine groups, carboxylic groups, etc.   armed with information of the unknown one can make educated guess of the unknown as a start....java

Java is correct on all front and this is the normal determinations I use when possible in accordance with what I believe I already have changing the game here or there to suit the reaction.

There is one issue doing it this way. You must get very good at microscale work because if not you will waste everything you have attempting to figure out what you have. Trust me on this and im sure others who know me well enough will tell you I am the master as the destruction of material just to be sure it is what it is.

Haha, well then, Sedit, you can expect a pm or two from me when the day comes that I can't find a way to destructively test my unknown compound.

Reading the microscale stuff in Zubrick's book already has me realizing the importance of microscale, especially for someone like me who is just starting out. Attention to detail is not an option in microscale, it's a necessity.

It's gonna take me a while to get to the point that new things instantly make sense. I'm still very much on the basics. I guess I could probably memorize more shit, but I want to understand it. It's the desire to understand that drives me to learn, otherwise I'd just follow one of the many shopping lists and recipes found online for damn near any compound one would want and be done with it.

I been eye ballin' a nice microscale kit for a while. I have a feeling I will have that bitch before it's all over with.