PaulRB:
Yes, considerably better. You removed the delay() calls, which will have helped reduce the flickering. But there is still my other suggestion. Have you tried that? It should make the display much brighter
I have actually, but for some reason the flikkering is gone when i reset the 4017's after the for loop, but once i put the reset before the for loop the led's are brighter but flikkering like crazy.