PaulRB:
Very impressive! That must take up a lot of breadboard space!I have tried to solder the connectors on oled displays with a soldering iron and an illuminated magnifying glass desk lamp and just got in an awful mess.
I never breadboarded it. I just had the board made by OSHPark. Those are 8x8 mono LED matrices on the other side, it's a working LED text scroller right now. Six matrices, that is 48 columns, one for each channel on the TI IC. The Micrel IC is a "high side driver" and I paint one row at a time, go on to the next row, the usual way of doing this. All the further I got with the software was to have it scroll messages. I intended to get the USB fully working but never wrote the software. To change the message, I have to reflash the uC. Not very convenient. 
Do you use lots of liquid flux before trying to solder small connectors? It helps a bunch. Flux the heck out of it.