Quote Originally Posted by newbie View Post
are you suggesting to try pullup instead of pull down? done that...didn't work..
If I understood you correctly, and I am not sure I did, your push button switches ground the ports. If that is true, then yes, a pull up resistor, either internal (wpu) or external would seem to be in order. If your push buttons make the ports go high, then a pull down resistor would be required.