okay, i have it setup when you first talk to this npc, he gives you
a quest, but now i need a startingconditional so that when you speak
to him again he doesnt repeat the same thing

the script i tried using was;

int StartingConditional()
{

    // Inspect local variables
    if(!(GetLocalInt(GetPCSpeaker(), "candle1") == 1))
        return FALSE;

    return TRUE;

I basically want it set so that once you have the journal entry of
that quest, he starts a different conversation tree.

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I take it that you are setting candle1 to 1 when the NPC assigns the
quest.  In this case, you should be reversing the FALSE & TRUE.  The
conversation should then fall through to the next branch when the
variable has been set.

that didnt appear to work, it just restarts the original
comversation tree.

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Show the code where you set candle1 and a graph of the first few nodes
of convo.

Maybe you didn't place the conversation parts in the right order; the
original thread has to be placed after the conditioned one.

okay, instead of a graph, i uploaded an image of the conversation in
the toolset.

heres the script that sets candle1

void main()
{

object oPC = GetPCSpeaker();

AddJournalQuestEntry("candle1", 1, oPC, FALSE, FALSE);

setting isnt the problem though, once its set, I want the npc to
have a new line of dialog.

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That will not help at all, because binary attachments are blocked by
many providers (or even your whole posting is banned).

Well, I think this is the wrong way - the above function is used to let
the player read a new topic in the journal, but an opposite function to
check a certain journal state doesn't exist, AFAIK. To control a
conversation, you should use a local variable.

I strongly recommend to load down and study a source like NWNLexicon:

http://www.nwnlexicon.com/