Hey hey, it works!

Henrik, I changed all of the ports over to PortC (0-5) as you suggested. When I powered-up, the display said "ello" and "orld", in the upper-left corner. It was obviously dropping the first character, but to me that was 99.999% success!

Tasmod, I put your code in, and now the display says "Hello." and "World." in the lower-left corner. So, you were right.

You guys helped me get over my first MAJOR hurdle, now I can work on the LCD text formatting and other smaller issues. I learned alot through this, mostly that each PIC device must be studied very closely and its ports set/configured properly. I know I have a long way to go, but its a great relief to be moving forward again.

Thanks so much for your help!

Bill