I have my counter circuit put back together and it is working again.
I have noticed something lately, both before I took the counter apart and now that I have put it back together. When I first turn the circuit on, the up and down buttons will act funny. If I hit the up button it will either jump to 2 from zero or it will show 1 and then go back to 0 when I let go of the button. the weird part is that if I leave it alone for about a minute then the counter works properly with no errors.

Any Ideas what could be causing this?
You said you're using 74F counters. As I told you, these are very fast and also most sensitive to noise than the CMOS counters. So it could be a noise issue - from what you say below, it sounds like the noise was coming from the Rx.
I may have found something on this. At the same time the problems started, I put the receiver on the board so that I could borrow the power supply. I have only tried this once but when I took the receiver off of the board before putting turning the counter on, I did not have the problems I mentioned. However, when I put the Rx back on the board, it did not cause the problems.
I am now back to waiting for the funds to put in another order to the parts store. I still need to get the three buffers. I am going to get everything else I need at the same time to save on shipping . So, It will be a couple weeks before I can place the order.
Good as I am still thinking about the design. See below. Even 0.83 cent items get expensive when you have to get 100 of them.
Some suppliers offer a discount for larger quantities.
Sean