Kari,
I did read it and I understood your point. It led me to conclude that you are right. All I have to do is remove the jumper that routs the pins 4,5 to the motor and jump 2,3 to replace them and assign these in the code. There are a set of header pins on the LCD board conveniently placed to make this easy.
All working fine as "spcomputin" suggested with a slight jumper fix.
Thanks y'all for the help.