EEPROMex "Exceeded maximum number of writes"

PeterH:
Do you know why you're using that library to access EEPROM at all?

I'm willing to try others, if you have recommendations. I need persistent storage of an int array, I'm building something like a chorded keyer. The "chords" produce values that need to be assigned to letters. I tried to compress the values to with in the size of a byte to use the standard library this reduces the differences between chord values though and limits my options, so I would like to store the values as ints.

Maybe your suggesting that I implement what the library does within my program?
I'm thinking about that at this point... but I was hoping not to have to reinvent the wheel, I just started programming..
I'll do what I have to though, so what will be will be.

honestly, I would like to store a larger persistent and accessible array without needing to have it in ram at all as I'll need all the memory I can get. I can only store the values of 26 letters in the way shown and if I make the array bigger then that, things crash.

maybe I'll just convert the address values of stored ints to letters...
just seems too much like the fiasco I had with the standard library