I appreciate the help. I looked at the tutorial and, although it claims to show you how to make a millisecond timer, it is actaually psuedo-milliseconds. He's getting a value by dividing 1 second by a known value. So the "milliseconds" are always 0.333, 0.666, 1 , 1.333, etc..
That is not true milliseconds. That's like saying you can create a high resolution image by simply taking a small lo res image off the web and increasing the resolution in Photoshop.

There must be some way of accessing a faster system clock than referencing the frame rate of your game