Crow:
Third, what do I have to do with the code to get it to work? I've read the SoftwareSerial routines on this site, and nothing has worked yet. Also, the Arduino seems to have some weird logical rules, I've got "If" statements that seem to run all the time, regardless of the condition being tested.
I'm really curious to see the if statements that run all the time. Sounds bad. Can you post your code?