Nigel, thanks for the info about the base not being able to have more than 0.7V put into it. I had no idea. However, even though I have been giving it 5, it still works fine at close ranges. What symptoms will the transistor have when it is blown? I do have a diode on my relay, however, what would happen if I didn't? I didn't use a diode on a relay, quite a long time ago, and I never had any problems. Just curious. I'll try to get 0.7V going into this thing.
UPDATE:
Okay, I played around with it a little. Out of curiosity, I put the base of the transistor right to ground (PNP) and the relay clicked. I let go, and it stayed clicked. Transistor fried. I then did the same thing again with a different transistor, but using a resistor, and everything worked out fine. This makes me assume that I never had any problems with a transistor, somehow the chip was acting as my resistor perhaps. I put a resistor from the pin out to the base, just incase.
So, there goes that idea...unless I am missing something. I connected everything, and I still have the same problem. I had an idea of connecting the receiver to the power supply with germanium diodes and putting a big capacitor on the receiver. This way the receiver would not suffer the voltage drop. I haven't been able to test this as I only have silicon diodes on hand and they drop .7 volts, bringing my power supply down to an unacceptable 4.3V on the receiver.
Thanks