Well, I finally upgraded to MPLAB, and appears to be running
OK.  But, I have also started to use the provided assembler,
and it is giving me warnings about using TRIS.  Since I have
been using the older version, I hadn't seen it before.  But I
do remember some traffic on the list, but looking thru the old
saved messages, can't see anything.  So, whats the proper way
to define the ports directions.
        port_a equ 0x5

        movlw   0x0F
        tris    port_a

I haven't had any problems, it it just says its not recommene
ded.