adwsystems:
I'm sorry, but I could not have added that fact into the OP. A lot of people would have simply responded that adding AltSoftSerial was the issue. Thus leaving me hanging, without actually finding the root cause.
I don't think that would have happened if you had framed your question something like this "These two programs were both working fine but when I added AltSoftSerial to both of them one would compile and the other gave the following error. Can anyone suggest what might be the problem?"
...R