>>> How much money am I prepared to spend? The in circuit debug capability 
>>> is
>>> available extremely cheaply by use of a PicKit or ICD, while an emulator 
>>> is
>>> going to cost probably ten to a hundred times as much.
>
>You have to figure out how much your time is worth,.

Yeah, well, I was really answering the OPs question about 'what other 
questions should I ask?' to which my answer was 'how much money do you want 
to spend?' ... I rather ineffectively tried to say what you have said, by 
saying it from a different point of view. 

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