Thanks for the tips. I've made the adjustments to the code buy I'm still getting the strobing effect from 1 LED to the next.
The one other thing I should note is there was a comment put in there by the original writer that I left in there but didn't implement that is worth mentioning should this be something on the hardware end of things. They said they used resistors in the circuit. I honestly don't see how this would get multiple LED's to light up at once and prevent the strobing; my education says that would only dim the LED's.
Any ideas?