Kaz,
thank you , thank you , thank you! I am seeing exactly what I expected to see after I got rid of the external interfaces in the entity name, and placed the two additional signals in the declaration of the architecture (out1, out2) and viola - happy!
However, I tried to get rid of the buffer , and replaced it with out, but this didn't work. I got errors because in the Freq_Div_1 code I have
out1 <= not out1; and
out2 <= not out2;, and this requires these two ports to be read, hence the buffer. If this is "garbage" what would be the alternative?
Again, thanks for the help.
Triston