USB Bootloader with EEPROM - 18F4550

I looked at 2 yr old posting here regarding modification of the USB Vendor Class Bootloader from Microchip written in C18 and ran into a couple of issues that are now resolved. But, FYI:

1st, I was modifying this to use an EPROM value set from within PicBasic Pro to jump into the bootloader vs. a jumper setting etc. One problem I had was going over the size limit for the boot block. Once I removed the BlinkUSB() routines it was able to fit again. Adding the read and write to the EEPROM was pushing it.

2nd, I could not get the EEPROM read or write to work properly. I started with the more discrete routines accessing EECON2bits, etc. and finally switched to Read_B_eep() et al. None of this worked until I hit the following routine which actually reads and writes successfully. From main.c:

Code:

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void enterbootload(void)
{
        //Bootload Mode
        mInitializeUSBDriver();    // See usbdrv.h
        USBCheckBusStatus();        // Modified to always enable USB module
        while(1)
        {
                USBDriverService();    // See usbdrv.c
                BootService();          // See boot.c
        }
}

void main(void)
{
        unsigned char eeTemp;
        unsigned int address;
        address = 0x0009;

        EEADR = address;
        Read_b_eep(address);
        eeTemp = EEDATA;

        // Check EEProm-based Bootload Entry Condition
        if(eeTemp == 0x01)
        {
                Write_b_eep(address, 0x00);    // write into to EEPROM
                Busy_eep();
                enterbootload();
        }

        _asm goto 0x1000 _endasm
}

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Simply doing something like "eeTemp = Read_b_eep(address);" did not return the correct value for me on read. Also, the only reason I broke out the bootload into a separate routine was that I was trying to also have the PORTB bits as a secondary option. I could easily put that into the if eeTemp portion.