Ok, so I finally got enough time to do some more testing getting it to work for me. I have the first chip, and I had gotten the time to work but not the alarm. Even with a correct build, the play button was doing the rapid press thing. Today I had and idea and set the alarm to a specific time and enabled the alarm, and then soldered on the wire to play. Now both the clock and alarm are working without the problem of the play button.
So I think it would be a good idea to make it a bit more plain that you not only need the correct build, but also have the alarm enabled before you hook up that last wire.
But altogether I now have an entirely working rockbox with both the Clock and Alarm. THANKS MUCH!