[Pat Fairbank]

For me, the biggest hassle of reprogramming the robot is digging out the cable and hooking it up. You'd have to do this anyway to download a config file to the EEPROM, so the time saved is just the difference between doing a compile/upload with MPLAB/IFILoader and doing an upload with another utility.

I do think your idea is a good one, but I personally wouldn't make use of it.