I'm having trouble making chocolate-dipped strawberries.?

You need to "temper" your chocolate. Go to a href="http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Tempering-Chocolate/Detail.aspx" rel="nofollow"http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Tempering-Ch…/a and follow the instructions. After you temper your chocolate you can hold it for a long time without it melting and when you bite into your chocolate you get a "snap" as it breaks, like those fancy chocolate truffles you would buy in the store. I was a culinary student so I have done this before. good luck and happy cooking!