Tried adding the interrupts to give the sensor time to get a reading.  However, the robot is still only getting 0x01b4 values.
Was having way too much trouble figuring out why my code seemed to fail.  So, code was taken from the website and the results were returned in the for loop instead of changing the LED from the for loop.  Not too sure about the left sensor being used in the maze.  However, to demo I can just move the center wire to the left senser port and successfully meet the LED lighting requirements of the lab.