*IF* your numbers are right, then you are not finished with your conversion just yet. You need to maintain shock level until you can go from sundown one evening to within an hour of sunrise the next morning without losing more than 1ppm of chlorine AND you have no greater than 0.5ppm of CC AND your water is clear. Then, we usually suggest keeping the chlorine high for one additional day after that before letting it drift down.
Don't bother retesting the CYA at this point. You don't have any in there and you will just be wasting your reagents. After you conversion is complete, you'll need to add some CYA directly but don't do it yet.
Do you have some trichlor tabs now? If so, are they wrapped or unwrapped?
Part of you problem may also be your high CH, TA, and pH. That is not a good combination. You can't do much about your CH since the only real way to lower that is to drain but then refilling will bring it right back up. But, you can do something about the pH and TA. Please read both of these links about the process of lowering TA. http://pool9.net/alk-step AND http://pool9.net/muriatic/
(You'll need to test the pH only when your chlorine is no higher than 10ppm or else you will get an inaccurate reading.)
Don't change the sand yet. Wait until you are totally done with the conversion.
Here are some testing demo videos that may be helpful to you. http://pool9.net/K2006-vid/
Hope this helps. Keep us posted how things are going.
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