You have chosen to use one of AutoCorrect's triggers to substitute a word and it is picking the first in your list. You want them unique up until a trigger (which is often punctuation).

1. Do not start the phrases with the same letter sequences.
2. I start some of mine with the underscore so that it won't pick up my ordinary typing.

Andrew's suggestions are good ones, as well.

References that may help you with AutoCorrect:

• Exploiting AutoCorrect by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP
• AutoCorrect

I'm making a program for my work and I was utilizing some of the conventions we have that already exist because I'm used to them by now.

It's just a shame I didn't realize this issue would come up until I've already added over one hundred of these auto correct terms

i just wanted to know if it were salvageable, I will take Guessed's advice and just reconfigure them all

To reconfigure them all, use Jay Freedman's AutoCorrect2007 utility. It will create a Word document as a table with your entries.
You can change the trigger in that table, then run the restore function to get them the way you want.
The Macro Zone - Jay Freedman, MVP