I did that. I had a routine that was interupt based on the EOM pin during which the pic would do nothing until the EOM bit was pulsed low. I found that I really didn't need to do that. I didn;t gain anything from it. My problem isn't the decode, its the if then statements. The pic just won't do them. It won't go on in the program, it won't play the error message, it just wants to loop back to the beginning. Do you have another way of doing the password section? As to why I am using 20 mhz, I don't know, thats just what I was using. I will try a 4 mhz osc. Now I guess my question for that is it still as OSC_hs or just external?

Travin