Everything is working fine now off of the ZooMed Rheostat. We did take a few measures that worked for us. We changed the hide from a homemade-cardboard hide to a homemade plastic hide which perfectly regulates the temperature. We aso raised the box off the ground by about another half an inch as well as changing the room temperature from about 80 to around 77. Now all the temperatures are where they should be.
AND . . .
Today she gave us a PERFECT shed. We had to unroll the thing but it was a complete in one piece shed.