[jerryhawthorne]

Your making real progress LC. There really shouldn't a "noticable" hum but if your fine with the volume to a listening level, that's great! I would still try the 10mfd cap across the resistor from the center tap to ground. As indicated, that resistor sets up a negative voltage to bias the amp. It needs to be a clean DC and the earlier schematic that used it seems to make sense. Any ripple in this will add some hum.
Again, I'm dumb on this stuff.
Jerry