Thanks for the circuit idea MikeMI, I'm not sure how it works, but it looks really simple and clean, I'm gonna study it for a minute.... I don't drop it all down to 4.7V because there's other chips and logic before my OR-Gate that need the 5V, and I'm trying to run as close to the recommended values as possible for the switch (I'm new at this so maybe it's overkill on my part to try and hit the recommended values... I dunno)
audioguru, I tend to stay away from votlage dividers here because the output voltage would change with the voltage across the divider, and this circuit will be driven by a 9V battery, so as my battery drains it might affect the output of the divider.. but maybe not, I'll look into it some more, thanks for the suggestion