So things now work but I still didn’t understand why some things were acting as they were. As Richard said “You are still not getting it right evidently”. I could finish the project at this point however I was still interested in Configurations which seem to be acting very strange for the Configs I had called for. Richard had used very similar configs to the ones I was using so I started to review the differences. There were no significant differences.

I checked to make sure I had all item in the right Config, 1 or 2. All was fine.
I checked my programmer, melbas Programmer 4.50 list of Config settings and they were different than listed in my program. OOPS! Looking back at the programmer under Options I had checked “Erase before Programming”, Verify after Programming”, and “Update Configurations from file”. So this should take care of everything needed in the Configurations, right?…………WRONG!!!

The second time I looked back at the programmer Options I notice at the bottom of the menu, “More Options”. In most cases this would contain non-essential items that may or may not mater. At the bottom of that menu was “Program” and in that menu the word “Configurations”. Wait a minute; The MAIN menu already set “Update Configurations from File”. Out of curiosity I then checked “Configurations" under the submenus More Options- Program-” and reprogrammed the 1936. To my shock and surprise, all the weird things were gone. LED could be placed inside the ASM block, my PORTA.7 was now a digital I/O. Everything was working correctly. After a couple of weeks of trying to solve bizarre software behavior I find the problem was hardware not software and I would never have gone looking for this if so many of you had not said things like “ not getting it right evidently”. I may have written many programs without being effected by this problem. At this point I can’t be sure that any of my config directive were being programmed into my micros and Configs my have always been defalt. I fell pretty bad that many of you have given of your time. I also have some regret that the programmer menus were written in this manor on some important points. Lesson Learned, don’t take anything for granted! I will however say it was a great exercise in detail study of ASM SLEEP. Thank you again for all your assistance!
Wayne