new board is made, it turned out a hole lot nicer. everything powers up ok except for when i put the chip in.. i did find a short in the old board, so maybe my PIC is destroyed and thats why its not working now..

i measure "open" across vss and vdd with no PIC, and 1M ohm with PIC.

i dont know what im doing wrong, ive been over the pin-outs a million times, and everything seems right..