looking and moving up and down(pitch) using glRotate()

I have a OpenGL program that is like a space simulator. I have the thing correctly turning and flying straight, but things start to get difficult when I try to look up and down. To look up and down, or pitch, I have the program increase pitch by one is down and decrease if up, when the up or down key is pressed. Then, in the draw function, I have the glRotatef function rotate on the x axis up and down according to pitch. Like:

Code:

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glRotatef(pitch,1.0f,0,0);

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And this works fine if I am facing along the x axis(0(360) or 180 degrees), but say I face 90 degrees on the z axis, the screen rotates around in a circle. I hope you follow me on this. I can't figure out how to fix this, so any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

if i get what your saying correctly, it's because at 90 degrees you should be rotating on the z axis to go up and down... the way you are attempting to do this is fairly complicated,
you could try

Code:

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void gluLookAt(
  GLdouble eyex,     
  GLdouble eyey,     
  GLdouble eyez,     
  GLdouble centerx, 
  GLdouble centery, 
  GLdouble centerz, 
  GLdouble upx,     
  GLdouble upy,     
  GLdouble upz       
);

eyex, eyey, eyez
The position of the eye point.
centerx, centery, centerz
The position of the reference point.
upx, upy, upz
The direction of the up vector.

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and/or look into vector math and trigonomotry...

Ok, I looked up that function and it will work, but there is one thing I don't know about it, and that is the up vector. When I change the values it doesn't seem to have any effect. What does it do?

it specifies the up "Vector" technically its the up Axis

so if you use (0.0,1.0,0.0) then positive y is up
if you use (0.0,-1.0,0.0) negative y is up
if you us (1.0,0.0,0.0) positive x is up

get it?

using decimal points wont really change anything...