Tom wrote:What is the 0 at the end of your code for?

The 0 at the end is a string delimiter. When reading the message from the eeprom, if the 0 is found , the rpocessor stop reading and it knows that is the end of the message to read from the eeprom.
Ion

I used an other display before i decided to try lcd2041
On my stamp program i have all the messages stored in the eeprom with an 0 ( zero ) at the end of string to define the end.
ex:
msg0 DATA @0,254,88,254,71,1,1,"[L] LABELS MENU",254,71,1,2, "[C] CONTACT INFO",0

The message is displayed ok, BUT ...