Help Using Sparkfun Accelerometer MMA7361

Either you are not understanding
what all this means or you are ignoring it. You cannot connect ANY of these pins directly to an arduino running on 5V:

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sleepPin (pin-7)
selfTestPin  (pin-13)
zeroGPin  (pin-9)
gSelectPin  (pin-10)

Well, you CAN. None of those 4 pins actually needs to be changed to use the device. You connect them either 0 or 1 depending on what you want to do. For 0, connect them to ground. For one, connect them to the 3.3 V pin on the arduino board. None of those pins actually needs to be connected to any pin of the Arduino which is going to try to put 5V into it.