Working now... It was simply a mis-wired A2 pin. With everything neatly in place, resistors in line, etc. We have both chips working fine. I was also off in the chip 2 definitin by a bit. Now it works great. Thanks for the help!

Chip1 con %10100000 ' address of chip1
Chip2 con %10100010 ' address of chip2

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