I should have stated that I have no problems with getting the LCD to work. I wanted to post only the information that I felt was relative to the what I was trying to accomplish. I also have decided to go about programming the PIC the way I wanted and have deviated from setup in the manual. I do not understand what it is saying that I need to setup all of PortA as inputs. Why would I want to do that if I only wanted to do an A to D on one channel? I want to do A to D on AN3, or PortA.4.

I have worked with A to D in the past on this model (PIC16F687) and had no problems with programming in Assembly. I am new to PICBASIC and am just tryign to figure out how it functions.

I decided to take a look at the pot with a voltmeter and see if I could make sense of what was happening. I read the voltage and it stays low and then jumps to 5V. Once the pot is disconnected from the PIC, the voltage range is linear from 0 to 5V. I must have something configured wrong with the A to D. I will check it out and see what I can find. The pot is a 10K which is what I have used in the past. I will update once I figure it out or repost with more questions.