Curious about how old your MPLAB is. I got my PICSTART+ around ten years ago and MPLAB supported it then.
So far I have only used a PICKIT2 on Win7 and have not had any problems there.
I'm using 5.70.00 dated 2001 on my desktop. There's no Programmer drop down menu in it.
I had an MPLAB version 6.xx on my hard drive from a while back though, and I got that working ok with PBP.
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