Darrel,
I set up my programmer as you directed and still get the same results...
The PICkit2 application starts and and just shows that it found the connected PIC... thats all. I have to manually click the putton and then select the hex to get it to program the target PIC.
Just before the application starts the programmer shows activity but that is maybe just reading the target PIC to confirm a connection.
I tried many of the other commands in the readme file with no luck.
It looks like the command never actually runs or has some other error.
The PICkit2 application gets started from the programmer path you enter in the IDE so its the script that is not working.
My new USB U2 came today and it works with the script... so I guess I will scrap the PICkit... too bad the price is right and it does work if manually directed. It also works as stand alone.
Maybe MEL has some other info on how to get the PICkit2 to work with the script.