Maybe someone can help me.

Looking for the name of this cable or the type of cable. Did a search
on "ribbon cables" and only get computer type cables for hard drives
and such.

This cable runs between a small monitor and the curcit board. Trying
to find out what these cables are called and if there are any uniform
specs to these cables, (ie number of connections = pre-determined
width). Would like to lengthen this cable by 4 or 5 inches for a
project but unsure where such cables can be had.

Pic of cable here. Sorry for the poor quality but you can tell what
you are looking at.

http://home.comcast.net/~kailamenjaro/

Looks like a flexible flat cable (FFC). They come in various terminations.
Look in the Digikey catalog he

http://dkc3.digikey.com/PDF/T052/0047.pdf

John Musselman