Hi guys... thank you for the info.
Yes, I'm using a 16F818 chip... not really my choice but rather something that my buddy chose for his paintball gun and I'm stuck writing the software for it.

Anyway, thanks to your suggestions I'm getting close. However, what I've noticed is that on wake up the TMR1 interrupt is disabled.
I'm curious if this is normal and I just wonder if I need to re-enable it via the PIE register. I'll try that and see what happens.