Well ends up today I have the blue cards working with cgminer! Ends up that instead of being intuitive and hooking up the controllers to the cards from the controller to the data out pins, you're supposed to connect the spi cables so they go from data in to the controller...  But now that I switched the cables, with 12 boards, were working at about 370 Gh/s which is a heck of a lot better than 0! But now that it's finally working, I can work on getting the hashing rate up