Ok, I followed your instructions to up the chlorine until it stabilizes and upped the alkalinity with sodium bicarbonate. It took two nights to stabilize with bleach at shock level and voila woke up this morning to "crystal clear water". Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, you guys are great. At the same time, advice from another area that my pump would loose water when I shocked it, I found indeed a plug of leaves and small pine cone in my vacuum hose. I have a beautifully clear and very clean pool now.
Huggs, Bekka