Thanks for the links, DA! That really cleared a few things up.
Apparently it appears that this:
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Now assuming that that is true (and I'm pretty sure that it is), then it seems like as he's falling in time is actually slowing down for him, so that if I see him take a million years to get to a spot A, one million years later he will actually be at spot A, not just an image of him. Likewise, a billion years later when I see him a fraction of a nanometer above the event horizon, he's actually a fraction of a nanometer above the event horizon, and so on.
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Is not true. Just because we see him at spot A doesn't mean he's really there. Us seeing that image of him actually
is an illusion. But if that's true, why is it that if he turns around and comes back to the rest of the universe, then the time dialation is no longer an illusion and becomes reality? Is it somehow due to climbing out of the gravity well?
So thanks to everyone that helped answer this!