UPDATE: My pool is almost completely clear!!!! I am amazed that the BBB system is so easy and works as advertised.

To summarize, upon pool open this spring, I was dumping tons of powdered shock into the water, and was getting 0 FC readings. The local pool store was trying to sell me all kinds of stuff. I then found this site, and was educated properly, andwas told I was fighting an amonia buildup brought on by some type of baterial break down of CYA. It took and enormous amount of chlorine (38 gallons) over three days to break the cycle. I am still waiting for my Taylor 2006c kit to arrive to do accurate testing, but based on what I see, I have success!!

Thanks so much for all of the help. Oh, and for those who are reading and following along, the most important thing to utilize is P.O.P.P., and patience is the most important one!