In answer to your question: Yes I read every post I could find for about 3 days now.

I found the problem was in the interupt I believe and some variable handling.

My LCDs on both PICs seem to scramble after a little while. They come up mostly blacked out Characters with some garbage characters showing up randomly. I put .1 caps across the power in at the LCD and it seemed to slow it down some. Any ideas?