OK - Back to the DNS issues for my zones. After jumping through hoops at the "Public DNS" (granitcanyon), I've spent over a week making nameserver changes to whois and mucking around with settings within Zoneedit. I've made some progress, but not nearly enough and I'm tired of dealing with it. Tonight, I tried to work with it more, but granitecanyon's help newsgroups were non-responsive (i.e. not available). I did a little more searching and wound up at twistedforlife. I had them completely set up and running as a (free) secondary nameserver for all 4 of my sites in less than 1/2 hour. I can't recommend them enough!!!! Here is a list of some others which I may try to add as additional secondaries in the near future:
Free DNS Hosting Services
freeDNS.afraid.org
Vcsweb
xname