car is overheating and smelling like old people

It's hard to narrow down. WIth the alignment aspect, a bad caster adjustment is what causes a lack of self-centering. Worn components like strut bushings can cause this (or anything else that locates the strut relative to its other mount). Or hitting something can knock alignment off.

In bad cases, I've read of a worn pump or rack causing the issue, but it's kinda rare.

Good luck.
 
nope the steering has been off and on for a couple months and now its kinda hitting me hard... the AC hasn't been working for some time now but it was at least blowing air, just not cold air... i'm not sure what it was that initiated the ac compressor's problem