OK, so I got both steppers moving both directions(one at at time) using a 12v power supply to the seed motor shield v1.2(this regulates +5v to the uno with j4 jumper). I used the code provided on the wiki page for the shield.
By the way this shield uses an H bridge where as the easydriver uses a different chip from what I understand. As suggested above the easydriver is way better for my application but this works for my short term testing.
Will post wiring and links to code if anyone is interested. I know if I came across this post 3 days ago I would have wanted the info.
Anyway next I am going to hook them up to my test axis to test hardware components, then ill move on to wiring the arduino to the easydrivers and testing multiple axis at once.
Although I think I have found the info I need to wire dual power supplies with the uno/ed configuration I am still concerned about being sure I am not exceeding the uno as I will using one power supply that I think will exceed its limitations and I sure do not want to fry another one!!!
Any suggestions or info would be greatly appreciatioed.
Thanks again to Robin2 for all the help!!!