Awe ben tabarnoune!

Ralph, one of your comments made it seem like all I had to do was to use another pin as an SDA and just go on from there. So that's what I just tried and the darned thing works!

Ok, that's great. But why is the SDA line listed on a particular pin on the 16F877 datasheet?

I thought that since it was listed on RC4 that THAT was the only place it would work. Hence why I tried all these acrobatics to work with this limitation.

This brings up another question; will SDA work on all pins?

Robert