Thanks sir! Here is my (drum roll) implementation of your circuity on a breadboard! Thanks for your inspiration and help! I used your coding with some minor modifications. This is my first 7Seg LED, and first usage of shift registers. BTW - I did have 220 ohm resistors hooked up in series from the shift registers to each segment in the display to begin with, but I removed all of them to try out your method.
