Well the stray "15" on the LCD seems to stem from the RTC as this doesn't happen when the module is un-plugged, and as I've seen it momentarily displays the wrong time, and the fact thta this happens on nearly every version of code, most of which has been fine in the past does suggest this is a hardware issue. However the PIC still reboots on the 27th Q.... Why is it always the 27th... that's what I can't figure out... and this is irrspective of what's used to communicate with the PIC