Hi again,
Sorry for the delay..I have been checking and re checking everything and I still cannot find the problem..At
this point I am going to go back to the first shift register project and try to get a better understanding of the sketch..They worked before and at this point I think my problem is in the installation of the external library..In windows, the IDE does not actually install..It is an executable in my downloads folder..Thus some of the suggestions i have read and the book instructions results in various errors.. An example of one of the errors is "avrdude:stk500-get sync(); Not in sync:reap=0x00" I have no clue what that means...Each way I try to install the library gives different a different error.I have tried this pagehttp://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Libraries but that also gives an error when either verifying and or uploading..Looks like I need more basics..
I thank you all your your suggestions and comments and will be back again,
Thanks again,
jolphil