ohh so this is normal then kinda good to know I guess so long as I didnt destroy my microcontroller. 
Nick, when I tested out the analog ports of another of the same board with analog pins to Gnd then Vcc I get a reading of 0 and 1023... Is it possible for some boards to hav an offset voltage and the others not?
What works for you? Resistors and capacitors? Because I've tried 10k, 1k and 1M ohm resitors both in pull up and pull down with no luck 
iyahdub, nope unfortunately its not any cheap one first I powered it through those big trainer boards in my lab then I powered it thru a 5v regulated circuit I constructed using a 7805 chip which gives me a nice clean 5v... No matter what I do I still get a noisy power signal....