While the negative Countdown portion of this issue has been resolved, a new issue has taken its place. Setting an event to notify the player causes it to fire regardless of conditions. For example, I have a variable. "A" and it is set to 1. I have an event with the following condition:
"A = 0" thus, nothing should happen. Nothing does, unless the option to notify is checked. Then the event fires even though its condition isn't met.