Everyone,
Thank you everyone for all your help. I feel like such a bone head now that I have fixed it and found out what the problem was. this is what happened:
1. got the motors to glitch again. so good, its doing "something". lol
2. called gecko technical support. he said to wire the G203V directly(with out the PMDX-133) with nothing connected but the power and motor windings... yes, leave all other pins open. he said the motor should have holding torque.
3. checked the holding torque and it was intermittent. as I turned the motor by hand it was oscillating.
4. check power supply voltage and it was 12VDC and not the 40VDC I measure originally about 2 months ago. WTF!!!!!!!!!
so it comes down to the fact that a drive that requires 18-80 VDC to operate was trying to run on 12VDC!!! LMAO! no wonder it would "glitch" when trying to jog it. the drive had a green LED which said it was fine, but wouldnt be able to drive the motor without sufficient voltage/power. it also turned out when the power supply was asked to deliver more power it would drop voltage even further.
5. fixed power supply problem. now have 65VDC and lowered my original amps from 3 to 1.25(to try and not burn up the motors).
I have been testing and running the motors all morning!!! they work PERFECTLY!!! I even done the dial indicators and the repeatability is close to zero. meaning im off by no more then .001. sometimes its a couple tenths, due to mechanical looseness and what not.
im one happy camper!!! im off to go make it do more things. like: spindle control, turret control(8 position), tool macro and chuck open and close! the real fun begins
thanks again everyone