I went through and disabled everything and then some on portA and PortE. No dice. portA and PortE change from low to high but does not toggle. In fact it undoes any set pins on portA and E. It does not alter them at the bit level individually. My desired function is to latch individual pins in either 1 or 0 condition to energize a relay or de-energize it, through the decoding of local switch presses. I need to take a step back or something....thanks for your help guys.

Nick