Yes Robert. I use a Picstart + from Mplab. It always verifies after programming. And after paralleling the chips and programming them, they were immediately installed on the circuit boards and tested OK. I must admit that it isn't perfect. Occasionally I would find some PICs that didn't work and had to reprogram them. The easiest way to try this is to stack the chips one on top of the other so that all the pins are in parallel. Then stick the bottom chip in the programmer. If you stack say 10 PICs, and there is a loose connection between the 5th and 6th chip, then the chain is broken and the top 5 won't be programmed. Try it with a couple. It works.