silly LCD scrolling issue

The other option is to use the LCD4Bit library. It allows for the LCD_LEFT command (0x04?) which pushes the entire text left one space as many times as you want and with as much delay as you want. However, you do have to remember at that point that you cannot have a string of longer than 40 characters per line since I believe that technically the 41st character of the first line is the first of the second line.