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Thank you for your reply Lefty. I thought that might be the problem so I rotated the button 90 degrees. When I do that the LED never lights.By the way, when you say "adjacent" do you mean the first or second layout below? (I don't have a multimeter yet)
1:
--| |-- (a)
--| |-- (b)2:
(a)---- (b)
--| |--
--| |--Thanks!
LT
I don't know what way I mean, that's why I always use an ohm meter first to find the terminals I need to use. Here is the problem, it's a simple SPST switch but there are four terminals. There is physically 6 different ways to attach two wires to four terminals, and only four of the possible ways will function correctly. So how lucky do you feel, punk? 
That's why I use a meter, as I hate to always rely only on my luck on any given day.
Lefty