> After some investigation I had soldered everything back together with
> it turned on

Ooops

> I had also gotten a bridged joint

Ooops

Have you tried another chip ? A reasonable investigative step

> Could someone take a look at it and tell me if my code might work
> at what I am trying, thanks...

At first glance it looks OK and seems to compile alright. Assuming
no other electrical horrors have been or are currently inflicted on the
poor thing it should work

There are a few things you could do to make the code a little more
readable and quicker/easier to type

For example, use XOR to toggle bits (be aware of read-write-modify
when changing port bits directly. It sometimes pays to manipulate bits
in a shadow register, which is then written to the port). 0XFF will simply
invert the state of all the PORTA bits

MOVF  PORTA,W
;perhaps copy W to a shadow register here
XORLW 0XFF       ;or b'11111111'
MOVWF PORTA   ;or write the shadow register via W back to the port

or

MOVLW 0XFF
XORWF PORTA

XOR can be used to turn a bit off (if it was on, but there's more to it
than that which could impact on other port bits), IOR to turn it on. Try
a few binary examples in a Watch window. For individual bits, define
them so you can address them by name

eg #DEFINE testpoint1   PORTA,0

CLRF instead of MOVLW 0X00, MOVWF

RETFIE instead of GOTO END_INT (saves reader looking for END_INT)

BANKSEL TRISA to go to Bank1
BANKSEL PORTA to go to Bank0

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