WAIT A MINUTE -- I just thought of something. If you use the PCB as labeled, with the LED coming before the CLR then which end of the LED do you connect to the PCB? Negative or positive?
I think I just found the answer - and what I was doing wrong:
I need to connect the + (pos.) side of the LED to the PCB. The signal chain is +9v to -|>|+ to PCB (LED hole). Is that correct? According to this picture that is what he is doing (assuming the flat side of the LED is negative)
[note, I had this reversed and just edited it]