Hi there,
I don't know what the status is...
What I read was that you don't know how to connect the dataports to your display.
I had the same trouble with another display.

In 4-bit-mode many displays have to be connected via the upper databits.
But NOT like it was posted:
LCD PIC
31 (D4) 9 (B3)
30 (D5) 8 (B2)
29 (D6) 7 (B1)
28 (D7) 6 (B0)

Try this solution (it worked in my case):

LCD PIC
D4 B0
D5 B1
D6 B2
D7 B3


Keep on PICing