Hi Mike,

Welcome to the forum.

I was reading through this thread and it looked like something Savnik pointed out might not be too clear. (But very correct.)

Porta.6 and a.7 are reserved for an external oscillator, so they can't be used as regular pins unless you put a config line in PicBasic Pro to explicitly enable them as pins. That's probably why the other LEDs work, but those don't.

Since I don't know anything about Swordfish, I can't compare how it does this. For me, once I started understanding the setting of fuses, things started getting smoother.

Hang in there. I find PicBasic Pro to be very powerful. So far, whenever something doesn't go as planned, it is just a little thing I haven't learned yet.