I got the issue figured out but ran into another problem. I was trying to select joints outside of side view, lol. It wasn't working in the perspective view...

I've got this one eyed alien. I've acheived what I wanted. Binding the eye to a joint in the head. The problem is binding the rest of the joints to the aliens geometry because the eye is parented to that geometry. Even when I only selec the other joints contected to the eye joint and bind the skin I get a wanring that eye geomtry is already bound..no longer move the eye, but the whole thing now... lol