The LE high and low is not an LED but a Latch enable on the PLL chip to tell it to load in the data in the shift register when shifting is done.

I probably should set an led somewhere to blink to confirm operation of the micro controller. Will do this next.

I am using an MELabs U2 Programmer. It reads and writes no problems. I have set the oscillator to INTRCIO in the MELabs programmer, which should be the internal oscillator?, and still no dice.