Well its from my house (which sadly dosent get the strongest signal) and in the beginning I had one bar, but then I went upstairs and had about 3 bars and still could not get the message to send.
EDIT: hmm...just got a message to send with one bar...not sure what the problem was.
Hadnt deleted any of my inbox/sent messages since I got the phone (which was about 300-400 messages. So maybe it was full? I deleted some and now it works, so maybe it was that...*shrug*