Thank you very much for the help! Great work on this bridge Cowboy.

Joomla! was holding on to the old component. I uninstalled it in the component manager, but I don't think that did the trick. When I tried to delete the com_smf folder it wouldn't let me. I have tried 2 ftp clients and using the cPanel file manager. But I keep getting a "permission denied" or "bad blocks" error. So I renamed the folder, but I think joomla was still hanging on to the old file. Any thoughts?
Glad you figured it out. This permission error is most likely due to the files/directories having the owner "apache". I recommend you install the component mamboXplorer, it should help you to delete the rogue files that won't budge.
http://mamboforge.net/projects/mamboxplorer/edit: in case you were wondering, it works fine on my Joomla! 1.0.2