Kieth,

Well,

I'll have to check that out this evening. It should be continuous to the 7805 center pin with no bridges but I could meter it nonetheless and see where that leads.

I have had a reply from the MicroChip forum from a fellow who paralleled 4 PIC's together on the same bus and had no problems.

My difficulty showed up at 1:00 a.m. so that may be part of it!