Thanks very much for the comments and suggestions. They are truly appreciated.

mackrackit: I'll give MCS a try when I get back to work. Hopefully MCS will work with my Explorer-18 board. I'm not familiar with MCS and PBP, having only used MPLAB and C compilers with 16F877 and dsPIC33 micros.

Bill: I was following the startup instructions for PBP and it suggested the blink8x.bas program. I should have realized it's not a PBP program. And you're right, maybe I should have started with a PIC16F84A and MCS but my project is on a very aggressive schedule. Since I'm familiar with MPLAB and a co-worker on the project suggested a PIC18 part and PBP (PBP to get the software done quickly), I figured "what could go wrong?" Hopefully this problem will be just a little speed-bump since it looks like PBP should do the job for me and be easier to work with than the C compilers.

Again, thanks very much for your suggestions! :-)