> The PIC will not run with brownout enabled and set to 4.6V

There's at least one issue with BOD

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/80206f.pdf

Doesn't appear to explain your problem, although it indicates that
BOD may be flakey
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