dc42:
SouthernAtHeart:
What will I need to do to turn them low, just digitalWrite(pin, LOW)?Yes. BTW there is a problem with the LiquidCrystal library: it makes a call to the begin() function in the LiquidCrystal constructor (a very silly thing to do IMO, and completely unnecessary because you should call begin() in setup). So you should preferably patch the LiquidCrystal library source file to remove this call, to avoid feeding power through the I/O connections before you power up the LCD.
Is there an updated library that fixes this? I don't know anything about working with or editing libraries.
Edit: ill search around about this. I should've done so before asking more about it.