Hi,
Yey, so my guess was spot on then
My solution is to comment out the line out in the PBP3 .PBPINC file on the basis that I think PBP3 should be compatible to MPASM
I agree, though one could argue that PBP3 was, and still is, compatible with the version of MPASM available at the time of release and with the version available and included in the PBP3 download package.
Then Microchip decides to change things at their end (or possibly fixing a potential isssue that PBP3 provided a workaround for) resulting in an incompatibillity issue between the different versions.

It kind of sucks that Mecanique (if that's where you got MCSP) didn't want to help you recover the license. I'd try speaking to MELABS and see if they can help you. If you got it prior to PBP3 you'd need to upgrade it anyway.

/Henrik.