Hate to have a dead end thread, but I ended up just wiping it out and starting over. I would've had to change almost everything around anyway.
but maybe you could answer it so someone doesn't hope to find an answer and not find one. I had all of the pages working, admin, the products were in. It's hosted by godaddy, same hosting account, just different domains. I got everything to transfer except for the template didn't work. It even showed up as the selected template in the zen cart admin. So maybe some css files didn't get transferred correctly? the main page was just a bunch of broken images and no editing. looked like a text file almost. Thanks for the reply.