Darrel,
I changed the programmer exe and now I get a dos window for a short instant... then it goes away... It is so fast that I cnnot see anything in the window.... programmer does nothing and target PIC is not read or programmed.
So...the dos is starting but not reading any script.

Are you actually using the script and one click programming from the IDE?
I have configured my IDE to place my compiled code in the PICkit2 folder.