Can I ask a favour please

[lew247]

I'm sure you'll have heard this before, but here goes anyway.
I'm trying to get back into pic programming 2 yrs after having brain surgery and I can do simple things like program lcd displays and so on
What is getting me at the moment is I cannot for the life of me figure out how these led display swork, or how I'd go about programming them.

Basically eventually I'm going to end up with a gps clock with 60 rgb or bi-colour led's around the outside, and an led module in the middle which will display information such as day, date, year and so on, and I may possibly link it up to several temp sensors as well and display things such as fridge/freezer temps, inside and outside temps and maybe more.

However I'm stuck.
I plan on using a GPS module and extracting the ZDA sentence to get the time or else probably the GPGGA sentence and using the pic to extract the time information and display it on the display along with some other info.

I want to use these diaplays (not bought them yet) http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=903
and the manual for them is here http://www.sureelectronics.net/pdfs/DE-DP105_Ver1.0_EN[1].pdf

I can't get it into my head how they work and no matter how many times I read the info in the manual I just cant digest it.
Can someone if they have time to have a look please tell me in simple words how they work, and what I'd need to program them using a pic please?

Also if its possible could someone post me an example code to say something like the word "welcome" (I plan on using 2 modules joined together and maybe in the final verion 4, 2 on top and 2 underneath)
This way I can digest the code and work through it to see exactly what it does, and then work out what I need and go from there.

Once I can get started I'm sure I'll be able to figure most of it out, its just getting started thats the problem.

If anyone can help I'll be eternally grateful