**edit**
I'm SO GLAD you guys were all sleeping when I posted this....
After it got dark I went upstairs to watch TV and remembered something I didn't do during the reassembly that probably had everything to do with this problem. So that's done and I can't wait to get home from work tomorrow and try it out. Hopefully that was the reason it wouldn't rev up.
At least nobody had the chance to say "hey stupid, check xxxxx". I did that myself! lol
Craig