Thank you for all of your suggestions.

I resolved my problem by bypassing it entirely.  Instead, I'm using
the delay functions in the <htc.h> file.  It was much easier to just
follow the example in the samples directory that came with the PICC
software installation.  It's hard to argue with the successful record
of the HTSOFT/PICC developers, so I'm using their delay routines
instead of creating my own.

All I had to add to the beginning of the program was:
#define _XTAL_FREQ 3579450 // Provide the frequency of the crystal,
necessary for using the delay functions
#include <htc.h> // Needed to access the delay functions.

I used the following commands to call the delay function in my program:
__delay_us(20);
__delay_ms (10);

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