Victory!
I tried what you said Eric, about the 2.2K resistor instead of the 4.7K on pin 3 of the pic. Apparently the 4.7k resistor was dropping the voltage too much to get the signal through.
I did it on the project board and it worked, then I desoldered and replaced the one on my pic pcb board and it worked there as well.
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Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it. You went above and beyond what I was hoping for. I know it was getting frustrating at times.