Hey Armando!
Thanks kindly for taking the time to answer and for the excellent suggestions. I did try Opera and uninstalling Chrome, but no go... I tried Adblock Plus, but no...
So, since I was getting kind of desperate, I went ahead and reinstalled the Cyanmod OS along with GAPPS and redid everything and thankfully it is okay now.
But, thank you VERY much for the help! Lets hope that stuff stays away.
One interesting thing though... when I was re-installing everything, the MOMENT I tried re-installing Turbo Launcher (which I'd been using just fine for over a year and loved it) from Google Play, IMMEDIATELY I started getting the homes screen popups! So, needless to say, I IMMEDIATELY uninstalled it and went with Nova Launcher, which is fine.