Congratulations on getting it to work. I noticed that before you edited this post, you mentioned that you had gotten it working without capacitors. Don't be too proud of this fact. Power supply decoupling is not a kluge, it is a necessity in almost all high speed (fast transition times) digital circuits. See this application note.
The post was from 2004 which was 9 years ago. Which part in the thread that you need help with? The OP might have left and no more doing electronics...