Thanks for all of the advice and information. Moncha, thanks for all of the links, you're a well spring of knowledge as always.
The lights did come with a relay, and that has been what has taken some time. I didn't want to mount the relay under the hood where it would be subject to water, dust, and heat and I didn't want to run wires across the engine bay to the drivers side where the switch is (the power is being drawn from Moncha's auxillary fuse box on the passenger side). I've been struggling to mount the relay behind the kick panel on the passenger side and have the wires run out of the rubber boot where half of the cars wires currently exit the firewall. The blower for the A/C unit is in the way so I've had to do some creative contorsions to get up to the boot and feed the new wires through. The wire to the switch will then run behind the dash over to the drivers side. Hopefully this will result in a very clean installation with very little wiring showing.
Hopefully I'll be able to get it done tonight.
LET THERE BE LIGHT.