Geez,
Forgive my confused last post. I was swapping things again. It's tough looking at the world through an upside down brain.

SO I got in there with my test probes and I had also mis-read my PCB traces. It's actually PortB.1. Really! I checked 3 times this time.

So is there some kind of register thing that I need to configure that as an output? It is the RX pin for hardware serial... is that a clue?

Sorry for the confusion.