After all these years I have finally found what is wrong. In order to send serial the onboard crystal must be at 4mhz or higher. If it is higher it must be setup such as "Define 20". To indicate at twenty. In this post I was sending from a basic stamp which is actually a pic to a pic. My problem was that the pic was not running on a 4mhz clock. Once the clock is updated then the serial comes in just fine