Hi Kumar
Thank you for your very detailed response. As you suspected I do not have sufficient skills to troubleshoot the issue to level you suggested. I did try a couple of other things including going through a level shifter and powering the devices separately but with no luck. As you stated the problem may lay with pulls on the break-out boards but since they are working with other boards do not really want to mess with them at this point until I finish working with them.
thank you again for your response.
Mike