Originally posted by JeffJS
Looks like you need to work on your focusing technique. I'm sure someone has already mentioned exposure so I won't expand on it much but in interest of learning how to read the meter, this may help..
Zone System 
Thanks for the link very informative....
Originally posted by TaoMaas
It's hit-and-miss with local processing places like Walgreens. My wife has a friend who used to work the film processor at Walgreens and it was just a job to her. She wasn't into photography, really. However, there was an in-store processing center at a suburban Wal Mart that folks in one of our local camera clubs used to rave about. They had a kid working there who took extra care with his processing/printing and could turn out beautiful prints. So, ya never know. That's not an edorsement of Wal Mart over Walgreens, btw. If you have a local camera store that has the capability of scanning negatives, you might take your negatives and CD to them and ask them to have a look. See if they think the scans on the CD are accurate or if they've been 'tweaked'. You could also try shooting a roll of slide film. That'll give you direct feedback on your exposure because there's no 'middle man'. What you see is what you get. Now...having said all this, I'm going to make a WAG (wild-azzed guess) and say that your camera is probably over-exposing a bit and you might need to compensate. I say this because, when negatives get adjusted in the printing/scanning stage, they usually get corrected, not over or under exposed. Since your scans are coming out a bit hot (over-exposed), I'd guess that you're either getting an accurate scan of an over-exposed negative or else your negatives are WAY over-exposed and the scan was as close to normal as the machine could make them. If the scans are accurate, that's no big deal. It's fairly normal to have to adjust for how a film camera's meter reads things. But if your negatives are way over-exposed, then you've got some other kind of issue going on...maybe your shutter is lagging or the apertures aren't closing down fast enough in your lenses. This could be due to the camera and lenses having sat for many years and now the grease inside just needs to be used and loosened up a bit. Who knows? One other variable might be that the film was old. If the film is out-dated, it can give you color or exposure shifts.
Today im going to shoot with changing the ASA/ISO settings. Im going to try and shoot the same picture each time, i dont own a tri-pod so may be a little difficult....
the film is 400, and the camera allows for tiny little up or down notches
between 800 and 400 i have 640 & 500, between 400 and 200 i have 320 & 250(according to the manual), so im give those a try with my 400 film and see if it makes a difference...
Also im going to search around for a dedicated shop....
thanks again, and will share my experience when im done.