I'm going to go ahead apologize now because after searching some more I came across a tutorial located here, http://blog.tomfleet.com/?p=93 and although its not the same LCD that I have I understand now that the controller is the same along with the pinout so I am going to attempt to build a shield to attach it to my arduino and see what I can do.
I am still open to advice or help on writing a sketch. I would like to get it working with lcd smartie but with my 16x2 lcd I was only ever able to get it to display random numbers instead of the data I wanted. Communication was there and I could see the numbers change as I changed things in lcd smartie but could never figure out why it would only display numbers.