The TV supports 1080, but I found the solution by hot swapping the unit after booting with the computer monitor. This boot up set the output to the monitors resolution. Once attached to the Television I had a clear and steady picture. Using the video set-up in the Retropie menu I set it up to use the monitors default resolution. I then shut down and rebooted, and the system loaded to the retropie config I had just corrected. Going back into the Retropie menu's video set-up, I was now given the option to change the resolution to television, progressive, at 720, which is where I wanted this to run to allow for portability. I saved and rebooted and the system loaded on the next try. Four reboots later the system is still easily displayed.

Ok, so reinstall with 4.1

removed the hash from in front of hdmi_drive2 (now that I can see the config file) and that seemed to do it. That berryboot was the main cause like you said @rbaker , I will say this though: the config file looks way different than a regular raspberry pi one. But Ill see about any other changes in another thread. Moral of the story is skip berry boot if you can.