David,
Thanks for the help. The tagging suggestion seemed like a lot of work.
After messing around with the second suggestion, it worked like a charm after I realized how to pass the info to the notebook doing the work. In my case the loop looks like:
Do[(work = testList[[i]][[1]]; NotebookEvaluate["\\folder\newTest.nb"];), {i, 1, Length[files]}]
where work is the variable I used in the evaluated notebook.
Thanks again,
William