strigoi8183:
Ok so I took the advice from PaulS and just removed the infinite loop inside the loop and all problems resolved... Thank you guys you are the best. Now to use this new info to do my bidding... or maybe some robot project is in order....
That will make the program seem to work, but combing through the logic will reveal a mistake. Think about what happens if you had a '1' last time and don't have any serial input next time you run loop(). It won't kill your program but is a logic flaw that will do real damage when your program starts controlling more serious stuff than LED.