I cant believe how tough this is for me! Work offsets on CHNCll are kicking my butt!

So this is the last issue right now, but it is absolutely kicking my butt. The work offsets. I have a part program that has the zero zero set at the end, center, of the part. It is a simple face and turn test. I only use one tool for simplicity. The only way I have been able to get it to work for now is to jog tool tip to zero zero and hit the origin soft button for each absolute and position. The "machine" setting stays at 6 and 12 as the home position. I know this is not correct and need to be using the G54 screen offsets as well as the tool geometry but it gets all turned around heads off to some unknown location, not near the machine I suppose. If you can give me some simple tips on this I would appreciate it greatly. Following the steps in the manual don't seem to be getting it done for me. Here is the beginning of the code I was testing:

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N20 G20
N25 G97 S3261 M4
N30 G1 G98 X5.0 Z5.0 F200. T0
N35 G4 T303
N40 X0.5623 Z-0.5892 M8
N45 G50 S5000
N50 G96 S480
N55 G1 Z-0.7312 F0.015
N60 X0.6285
N65 X0.6639 Z-0.7136
N70 G1 G98 Z-0.5579 F200.
N75 G99 F0.015
N80G1 G98 X0.5523 F200.
N85 G96 S700
N90 G99 F0.006
N95 G1 Z-0.6892 F0.006
N100 Z-0.7312 F0.0018
N105 X0.7379 Z-0.6384 F0.006
N110 G1 G98 X0.8285 F200.
N115 G99 F0.006
N120 G97 S1000 M9
N125 G1 G98 X5.0 Z5.0 F200. T0
N130 M30

So when I add additional tools how does that change the way this would look?