Using 74AC parts on what I think of as a pluggable breadboard (e.g. http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=2295705&MER=bn-me-ca-r1-best-sto-5) is asking for trouble. The parts are RF fast and the pluggable board has not very good contact resistance and certainly more inductance and shunt capacitance than is good for RF. I would highly recommend using dead-bug style on a solid copper plane, as provided by a chunk of unetched PCB material. (Jim Williams did a few like that, see http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y3xQiBHHzaQ/UP3mLk96qWI/AAAAAAAAAss/ZvPbfN8lmTQ/s1600/eep114.jpg.) This approach allows for extremely short lead lengths and power supply bypassing (to the plane) with a near zero lead length capacitor.
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