I got it working. The circuit was fine. Something was wrong with my IDE, so I re-installed it then was able to get the liquidCrystal_SR library to work. I still get the same errors for the shiftLCD library but the other works fine for my purpose. Thanks for sharing this code, and also pointing these libraries out to us. I have been trying to get this 595 to run my LCD for weeks. Here is my schematic I made with Fritzing for anyone who is interested.
