Okay. I went out to add bleach to the pool earlier. I could still smell chlorine in the water from the 2 lbs of Bioguard shock I added a couple of days ago. I decided to wait on the bleach and went to the basement to rummage around through all of the pool stuff we had from our old Aqua Leisure Easy Set pool. I actually found what I was looking for! It was hth's test kit, although I purchased it about 1 1/2 years ago. It's been kept inside the house in a dark storage bin with a lid. I decided to go ahead and try it....what can I lose, right? Here are the results it gave me:

pH: 7.2
Chlorine: 5-10 (that's as high as this test kit can go.....who knows if it's higher??) Remember the test STRIP said 0? Wow.
CYA: 50
Alk: 80
Hardness: It says to add 5 drops of hardness indicator to the measured amount of pool water and if it turns red then there is hardness in the water. From there you add 1 drop at a
time of hardness tyrant until the water turns blue. When I added the indicator my water did not turn red. It turned kind of a dull yellow. I went ahead with the dropping
and swirling of 50 tyrant drops just in case. It never did turn blue, but it did turn a slight green somewhere around 20-25 drops. Don't know if this indicates anything.

So! I did NOT add the bleach as I don't know what the heck to do now. My water samples were taken from at least 8" below the surface about 1 foot before the surface water would reach the skimmer. My Water Tech vacuum won't be here until Tuesday. I will still have to charge it for at least 12 hours before use and it says it will only give me about 1 hour (if I remember right) of run time. I know it will take me longer than an hour to get all of the sediment off of the bottom of the pool as I'm sure I'll be busy changing out "stocking" filters as they get full. I know I'm writing a book. Sorry. You guys have been great! Again, I thank you for your continued help. I am now bowing to you.....