motorbill,
I took the master apart...nothing seemed to be out of order with it. The seals looked good, it wasn't put together wrong, the bore seemed to be smooth. I cleaned it up, honed out the bore and put it all back together. I put some teflon tape on the threads of the fitting that fits into the banjo fitting just to be sure there wasn't a small leak that I could not detect. refilled the master cylinder and rebled the line...the clutch pedal is definatly, without a doubt in my mind working properly. The pedal accually wants to push my foot up as I push down on it, the slave is pushing the rod about 3/4-1 inch, I do not have to wait 5 seconds, I can just keep pumping it. 
after bleeding the master, I tried to put the gear shifter into reverse from 1st gear, It worked. I played around with it some more and found that I can now get it into reverse from neutral now too. the only concern is that when it goes into reverse, it grinds on the way. I have to slap it into reverse (shift it really fast) and it still grinds. Is this something that I still may be able to fix? the car is still up on stands, I am going to put the tires back on tomorow and lower the car down and try backing it out of my garage. Earlier this year, I was able to shift into all gears while up off the ground, but once I dropped it to the ground, I could not shift at all unless the engine was off...This is when I relized that I had no brakes...that was a funny day...watching me turn the car around in my driveway with no brakes and having to start the car in gear...anyways, I'll try it again tomorow and see how it goes. of course I will post here with the results.
thanks afgain for all your help, motorbill...you always seem to come through for me.
joel
1976 MGB with a 1977 engine