I found a resolution for my issue. I ended up having to remove the angular portion of my html from the dom. I believe this destroys the angular app. So, basically anytime I want to start my app, I append the html to the dom and bootstrap the app. When I want to destroy it, I just remove it from the dom. This is the only thing I found that worked for starting/stopping my angular code within the same page without refreshing the page.
Once again, if anyone has a more elegant way of doing this, I would be interested.
Thanks,
-dhall
Derek Hall