Right - First off, cheers bud, your pointers have allowed me to get this up 'n running and working perfectly - I owe ya a pint (or two!)
I've shelved the 16F887 and written the code to a 16F628 instead, I reckoned being a noob, it might be better to try and get my head around 'less legs' - lol and it has worked for me, I've now got a nice little RTC running on my desk and as sad as it might sound, I'm chuffed to bits with my first project.
The next thing I want to do is write some code to output the Date & Time data to RS232 when a button is pushed, but I've run out of memory on the 16F628 as Mel's code takes up pretty much all the memory that is available! I had enough space to write the code for the button monitoring... but literally didn't have enough space for the 'serout' command line - lol
Close, but no cigar...
I've ordered some 16F648's to allow me to 'port' this over seemlessly (hopefully anyway!) and will post back my findings... or failures... probably failures knowing me, but I'll get there in the end