Don't know if you guys were paying attention, but cyclegadget found the solution.
I have bought a couple of these logic level converters. I haven't tested them yet but, they are really small easy to setup.
If you look at the schematic to the device, it uses a simple voltage divider to take 5 down to 3.3, and almost precisely illustrates the same scheme for stepping up the voltage as I suggested, but uses a JFET instead of a BJT. $2, done.