That's the really odd thing, I can browse them from the GUI, but can't from the API. I think I may have solved it tho. The datastores were/are mounted on one set of machines, but those were explicitly powered down. I mounted the datastores on another set of machines and can't browse them from the api. I think, based on what I am seeing when I try to do some other things, what is happening is that the names are colliding and the api is connecting me to the object mapped to the original servers that are down. So when I try to browse them, it says inaccessible because the servers are down.
In any case, I found a work around and uncovered some other issues in my lab environment that I need resolved before I can continue on my scripting....
Thanks for your time.