I did correct my problem by doing a diff on BBedit on my main level admin and the one I had originaly in a subfolder. I had a mistake in admin/includes/configure.php
This is what I had:
define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '');

This is what fixed it.

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

now, this many only apply when you move a zen cart into another directory, or I think it's more of an error on my part. I would definetly do a diff on your admin folder if it did work once and you moved it.