Thanks for the props everyone! I really wanted the new panels to work so I am really glad this worked out in the end!
Offroad,
When I grabbed the newer door panels from the junk yard, I took the new switches too. The switches are very different. The new ones have different pin counts, and I believe there is a thread here:
http://www.sportsmobileforum.com/for...ing-13576.html where someone took a shot at it and didn't get it to work.
Ford also moved the rear view mirror controls further up on the door in the new panels, so you would need to splice the power connectors to extend the wires for that controller as well. After looking at it for a while, I decided I did not want to go down that road.
Heck, even between the different older style vans the wire colors differ, and then differ more depending on if the van came with a remote unlock function. Too many wiring diagrams for me to sift through!
There probably is a way to get the switches to work, I just hadn't seen any examples.