well, i believe i found the freaking problem.  when i was taking off the crystal in the receiver, i tore off the paper by accident.  the paper said 27.095 MHz but on the actual crystal it has a mark that says 26.640MHz.  I tore off the paper from the tx crystal, same thing.  paper said 27.095MHz but the crystal has a mark that says 13.5475MHz.  I KNEW something was funny!  Now I know it's the crystals, i just need to replace them.