it seems i had more pressing problems: i recently reformated my pc so i had to reconfigure my programmer for the pics to respond, and furthermore three of my lcd's horizontal picsal rows were blank, like a line through the word.
on your othe rquestion, i have condtucted and programed my own robot with 500 assembler opcodes that can follow a black and white line and avoid things in one program with lcd support, thats why i thought picbasic should be simple.