Well after a lot of head scratching I have it working. No matter what I tried it still work and kept halting - Off board Tabsoft stated it worked fine for him using PBP3 so I downloaded the 15 day trial, confirmed it worked, but then as it screwed up my pbp2.60 setting, un-installed it and pointed MSC back at the PBP2.6 folder... tried again and it worked (WT* and other expletives filled the air at this point)

Anyway, just to clear things up, I now have the GLCD running via a driver board using PORTB.0 and software serial commands (SEROUT2) and the PC application communicates with the PIC via an FTDI chip on the PICs hardware UART - and it updates juts fine

Rightt onto the next part of tidying up the menus before replacing the FTDI chip with an ES8622 Wi-Fi module - stand by guys, no doubt I'll have a few more questions for you.

On a serious note, I want to publically shout out a big THANK YOU to Tabsoft for all his help and contributions, both on and off the board - I'm also slowly understanding more of what I'm doing, and how PBP and it's commands work