Further to my previous posting:

> however I have
>  encountered
> similar interactions between MPLAB and other programs, where you simply can't
> run them at the same time or one will crash.

I attempted to reproduce this with a recent version of MPLAB and was
unable to do so, so I was a little quick off the mark. I have to conclude
that whatever the problem was that I saw it's been fixed.

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