Just as an aside in all this, just been to a Microchip sales whatsit, and I 
hadn't appreciated the purpose of the Pickit Serial Analyser. Apparently it 
can be set up to do serial, I2C SPI, and possibly others. Would this suit 
your purpose? 

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