Actually, its not programming as nice as I thought. Not it seems hit or miss as to weather or not it fails. This is the scheme I have:


+12V------- LM7805 -------+5V------O |-- ->VDD(14)
| (switch)
|
GND/Vss




RS232 PIC16F818
TXD (3) ------[4.7] -------- VPP (4)
GND (5) -------------------- VSS (5)
DTR (4) ------[4.7]--------- PGD (13)
CTS (8) -------------------- PGD (13)
RTS (7) ------[4.7]--------- CLK (12)



ICPROG SETTINGS:
JDM Programmer on COM2, I/o Delay = 20, Direct I/O

I created a small program to blink an LED: Progam with these settings:

Oscilator = INTrc
Code Protect = OFF
Write Enable = OFF
Fuses:
WDT = 1
PWRT = 1
MCLR = 0
BODEN = 1
LVP = 0
CPD = 0
DEBUGGER = 0
CCPMX = 1


All in all just a head ache of problems... I sure hope my JDM programmer I bought of ebay comes in tomorrow... been over a week for "Air mail" to show up...