Okay I think I figured this out. 

Yes my issue was the cgminer install was bad!  Also, I should have mentioned I am running cgminer on a virtual machine hosted by ESXi from Vmware.  I was able to blow away the cgminer and reinstall it using UBUNTU successfully.  Once I issued my commands:

cgminer -O stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.slushpool.com:3333 -u xxxxx -p xxxxx x --suggest-diff 512 --gekko-compacf-detect --gekko-compacf-freq 480 --gekko-start-freq 400 --gekko-mine2 --gekko-tune2 60

Everything started to work and I am reporting freq in range 400 to 480.  I may have to decrease the freq of 480 as I do see a lot of "plateau NONONCE adjust: RESET target frequency 480.00MHz -> 400Mhz".  It does adjust up and down every now and then.

Thanks for the assistance!!