Colin, I am able to connect now

A forum-offered Microchip suggestion

http://forums.practicallynetworked.com/showthread.php?t=6781

to run a repair file seems to have worked. I'd seen this initially but
didn't think I'd corrupted anything by uninstalling something and
am always a bit iffy about .exes

So I have tried it now, although I can't be 100% sure that it was
just that repair file and/or a combination of all the resetting of h/w
and s/w tried simultaneously that was the fix

But thanks for replying anyway
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