For anyone who might have had this problem it was due to the 2nd string of code not being on the same line. Really weird and simple fix. I guess they all have to be on the same line. So the correct code looks like
mysql_select_db($database_con2com, $con2com);
$query_rsVOTES = "SELECT username, descrpt, title, website, userID, Sum(score) FROM points GROUP BY username ORDER BY Sum(score) DESC LIMIT 0,1";
$rsVOTES = mysql_query($query_rsVOTES, $con2com) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsVOTES = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsVOTES);
$totalRows_rsVOTES = mysql_num_rows($rsVOTES);