Help breadboarding a circuit?
As well as working out what your actual circuit should be (see the comments to your question), your best bet would be to head on over to the Electrical Engineering Chat Room where you can discuss your problems in real-time.

If possible, have a digital camera handy so you can take pictures to upload - a picture says a thousands words, after all.

Breadboarding is easy once you grasp the basic concepts.  Grasping those basic concepts, if you don't have someone to help you, can be not so basic.