Ya I was starting to doubt myself...I have been reading this page over and over regarding cascading the max7219...
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/MAX72XXHardware
Crossroads has been helping me, but I just can't get it to scroll anything on the matrices....
I think I'm going to switch up the wiring to cascade it like the playground has it...and then try to find some example code..or come up with something....
any example code reference would be great...
Just keep in mind, I'm using a Mega2560..
so SCK = 52
MOSI = 51
SS (LOAD) = 53