The Armory won't work until the bitcoinQT deamon is all loaded up and synced. So that wasn't the issue. Armory won't even show transaction history until it finishes syncing with bitcoinD anyway so I can't check the details until I at least see the transaction there. But according to blockchain and blockexploer 277156 was where that bitcoin was and it all looked good on my end. Having said that, I came from using Electrum, and never experienced these issues. I unfortunately had to dump .88 version of Armory because of the resource issue and just started to use .99 recently, but I apparently just keep coming up with these little quirks and anomalies that don't make sense. Even right now, 3 hours later Armory still says 4 confirmations on that transactions and blockchain and explore both have over 25. I'm just wondering where the heck is it picking up 4, and the bitcoin daemon is all updated on my end here.
Turn off bitcoind auto management, start BitcoinQt yourself, then check block height in both BitcoinQt and Armory. Again, make sure these are the same as what you can see online.
You have to keep in mind that BitcoinQt/d constantly receives block data, that it then passes to Armory. You are most likely quite a few blocks behind on bitcoind.