Wow! Thanks Squib.

That just might save me some time programming external EEPROMs for my boards. I've been doing it by writing a program for the PIC that it's attached to. Downloading the data to the EEPROM. Then loading the actual program that will run on the PIC. So I have to load 2 or three programs for each board.

I'm feeling pretty dumb today. But tomorrow might be better.

For the combo LCD/EEPROM, I can't think of a good way to do that. I think the LCD data might confuse the EEPROM. Just by chance, it might write something you don't want it to. Or worse, cause a short circuit condition since I2C is "open drain" and LCD data is "driven" high and low. But I can say that you aren't limited to the SDA/SCL pins of the PIC, unless you are using the hardware Synchronous Serial Port to interface with it. The I2CREAD/I2CWRITE in PBP can use any pin.

Thanks again,
  Darrel