SUCCESS!

After days of research and getting down voted on a snobby Electrical Engineering forum for "not asking a proper question"..pfft... I got the IR LEDS working with the 9V battery.

Found a wonderful site that does all the calculations for finding resistance when working with LEDs AND gives a diagram in your preferred format, if your a NOOB to electronics like me check it out:

http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

Now I can work on setting up the pi with the camera and LCD and design the enclosure. Stay tuned!