[rbayer]

First of all, excellent work for someone just starting out with C. A few comments though to help make the transition from just playing with C to actually using it well:
First, unless you absolutely need to represent fractional numbers, you should always try avoid using doubles. They are _incredibly_ slow compared to ints. Since both factorial and permutations are purely integer functions, you would be much better off with simply using ints.
Second, code modularity is very good thing. If you have some time, I'd definately try re-writing your programs so that factorial is a function that you can call from within your permutation program. This idea of re-usable code and breaking things into smaller functions is the key to really using C well.
Third, global variables are a bad thing (unless you've got a darn good reason for using them). You can easily fix this by just moving your variable declarations to be inside the function where you want them.

Anyways, as I said, nice work and good luck learning C!

Rob