That was the problem Myke. When I said I followed the directions exactly
Microchip assumed that I knew what I was doing. I was viewing the hex file
instead of loading it. DUH! I should have realized that since that is the
way the emulator memory is loaded. Once I realized that everything worked
fine. luckily the configuration fuses and previously programmed with 1's
were the 0's should have been so I could reuse the OTP part I previously
tried.

Thanks for the help!

- -Mark

>>>> From:    myke predko <myke@PASSPORT.CA>

Mark, the only comment I can make on this is, you should see the
Configuration Fuses change from the default values after you load in the
.hex file.

If you don't see this, then you have a problem with how you're loading the
file.
Good luck!