hey thanks for some replies! Okay... I read and tried those suggestions, I didn't quite get it to do what I want but I got something out of this so far, but it's not quite right yet...

I opened script editor, cleared all, put on the echo all commands...

I went to "show" in the window pane (which has every option on), and deselected "polygons"... the editor updated, I copied the crazy looking line...

modelEditor -e -polymeshes 0 modelPanel4;

and pasted it into the bottom half... then I dragged selected over that and middle mouse button dragged it into my shelf. It created a button...

However that new button only hides Polygons... clicking it again doesn't bring them back.

Now I see I can create a second button to bring them back, but that kinda defeats the purpose... so I guess that's what I'm up to, what do I have to add in to tell that button to act as a toggle on/off command?

Thanks!!