I thought that with 96+ errors it said that my template is not compiling. I'm sorry if I did not post thorough enough, but when I read my post it makes sense to me, guess I'm biased.
OK. I have a 2.1 template setup with the instructions from here
http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.1/start-vc.php. It works fine with 2.1. So I installed 2.2 into a similar directory and use the same settings from the 2.1 template from the above link. However, when building the template I get 96+ errors. I have cleaned out my Debug directory and done all I can think of. Here is an example of an error, the first one in a long list:
Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__glBlendFunc@8 referenced in function "private: void __thiscall sf::RenderTarget::applyBlendMode(struct sf::BlendMode const &)" (?applyBlendMode@RenderTarget@sf@@AAEXABUBlendMode@2@@Z) E:\VS 2012 WORK\WORK\VC++\SFMLTemplate\sfml-graphics-s-d.lib(RenderTarget.cpp.obj) SFMLTemplate