I know this has been discussed and rediscussed, but I find none of the posts here useful. Presumably I'm just an amateur idiot in the making. Anyway. I have used a number of different compiler/ide combos and find PBP to be just about the most cumbersome of them all when it comes to configuring trying to get the config bits set.

Is there not a way to do this from within the program? Do I have to modify the include file? Which I did, by the way, and received a large number of errors for my efforts.

how in the world do I get these things set? The include file only has 4 of the 11 config bytes that need to be set (18F4520.inc). What gives? Why does this not put the config bits into the hex file? When I try to load it using pickit2 it has the wrong config bits set.

This is really confusing and tedious. I've about decided to give up and go with arduino.

Any help you guys can give will be greatly appreciated.