Thanks to all who responded, this was exactly the problem.

Once I realized how I had goofed reading the config section of the
datasheet, I reworked what I had and came up with something similar to
Mike's below and got the part running.

Anthony

>> > The brownout and power on timer are located in config register 2; by
>> > adding them to config register 1 you have corrupted the oscillator
>> > setting.
>> >
>> > Unless HiTech changed the way they defined stuff in the later
> version I
>> > think the rest of your config settings are wrong as well!  Have a
> look
>> > in the device datasheet under "Special Features of the CPU" to find
> out
>> > which bits are located in which register.  The 18F2321 has 7 config
>> > registers to set.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Mike
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
> Behalf
>> Of toftat@cowshed.us
>> Sent: 26 July 2011 18:02
>> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>> Subject: RE: [PIC] MPLAB X, Hitech-C and configuration bits
>>
>> I found this very confusing when I was trying to figure it out, the
>> constants from htc are defined as 16 bit values, yet the device
> datasheet
>> specifies things as 8 bit wide registers, and the first register they
>> specify in the table is 0x300001 CONFIG1H. There is also missing
> CONFIG3L.
>>
>> I will ignore the missing registers, and get things lined up properly
>> later and see if that helps, thanks
>
> The defined constants are 16 bits, but the extra bits are ignored if the
> config register is only 8 bits wide.  Ignore the separate High and Low
> registers for e.g. Config register 2, 5, 6 and 7 they are combined into
> a single 16 bit value in the HiTech compiler.
>
> e.g. something like this:
>
> __CONFIG(1, INTCLKO & FCMDIS & IESODIS);
> __CONFIG(2, BORDIS & BORV46 & PWRTDIS & WDTDIS & WDTPS32K)
> __CONFIG(3, PBADDIS & LPT1DIS & MCLREN);
> __CONFIG(4, DEBUGDIS & XINSTEN & STVREN & LVPDIS);
> __CONFIG(5, UNPROTECT);
> __CONFIG(6, WRTEN);
> __CONFIG(7, TRU);
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
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