thanks folks,.. for all the comments and good advice. I have a pretty nice test kit.. it's a TFTestkits TF-100.. I just ran out of R-0013. I continued to add bleach and keep the Chlorine level up through yesterday. Received my R-0013 a day or two ago.. and my CYA was pretty much nonexistant.. thats the reason for the "battle of the bleach"..

anyway: been bleaching, brushing and backwashing,.. pretty much all week.

As far as stabalizer.. I had a few chlorine pucks left over.. and tossed them in the skimmer basket, early in the week.. just because. Wednesday I bought 4 pounds of stabalizer crystals.. put about 2 pounds in a sock,.. stuck down in and old "duckie" floating thing I used to use for the pucks.. and left it in the pool.

today:
FC: 10ppm (and coming down)
CC: 0
PH: 7.8
CYA: still only a trace reading.