Make a good investment, buy yourself a genuine PICKIT 2 programmer. It's 'round 35$ USD and do a load of things. Have a look at the following page

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...cName=en023805

You can order it with or without demo board. It's really up to you. Give yourself 10$/hour... how many hours you waste until now by building those previous ones??? Can you use them as Logic Analyzer??? etc etc