Jumper: After reflecting on my needs a bit more, I've come to the conclusion that writing my own bootloader would be the best option. At the very least, it'll be educational. Unfortunately, scouring the fora, I was unable to find any example code as you had suggested.

I've been looking at the TinyBld and Pikme bootloaders, so I have a pretty good idea conceptually how to proceed. I'll just have to account for ASM vs PBP. One issue I haven't been able to work out is how to handle the hex files to reprogram themselves. It looks to me that the Pikme client loads the hex file and produces a binary image that it sends to the PIC for sequential programming. Is this the norm? Or is there a more appropriate way of handling the hex file for the non-bootloader program?

Thanks,
Kevin