Hi itmoto, I've been reading your threads for a while now. 
I believe that yours is slightly different due to NeoGPS ignoring those other portions of the message. I can try that library instead, but I think I need to specify the pins separately in the header file, which is strange. Either way, the above you mentioned as well as several variants of the message haven't worked for me so far in TinyGPS. I'll look into NeoGPS again though. Thanks for weighing in!