[sfs]

UPDATE: I created a project from scratch that basically was a copy of the sample competition code with printf() functions embedded and it WORKED. At this point I am having the student whose seemingly identical code did NOT work (did not cause output on the IFI loader window) send me his MPLAB project to me so I can compare the programs and all of the options that were used to see if I can explain why the difference in behavior. I will post another reply if this mystery finally gets solved.