Thought I would keep adding info to my post as I progress in case there are other "programming challenged" readers trying to do what I'm trying to do. ;-) All of the strings that I'm storing that have a space at the end like this:

EEPROM 212,["R","e","f","r","e","s","h"," "]
EEPROM 220,["S","h","u","t","t","e","r"," "]

"seem" to be the problem, even though they're not any where near the strings that were having problems like:

EEPROM 103,["S","e","n","s","t","v","t","y"]

I replaced the spaces with 0 and that so far has been working. Since I've seen several posts wanting to do this, once my other changes are complete, and if it still works, then I'm going to do a new post for wanna be's like me to have an "easy" starting place for storing strings to be displayed on an LCD. Also, I guess it's common knowledge, but with the 0 in there on shorter strings, you don't have to keep looping through to fill the rest of the strings with spaces. I guess that's what is meant by a "terminator" that I've read about in a few places.
Gary