The entire issue actually had to do with a Apache tool located on my hosting server. It was caching the css, so any changes I made were not seen. I had to manually turn it off by editing my .htaccess file. Here is the information I found below:
“According to http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/using_mod.html#htaccess you can turn off the module with the line ModPagespeed off in a .htaccess file.
The best solution would be to have a non-live development environment that didn’t have mod_pagespeed on at all, or where it could be added only for some final testing.”
This solution gave me a site that I could edit on the fly. Once I have the site fully developed I plan on turning this tool back on.