You program any other PICs with that before? dmaccole's advice is good. I have a different adapter (similar but different), but once I downloaded the pdf and read that I was in Group C, I put on the jumper, flipped the orientation of the PIC and I was rocking with PICKit3 in no time. Make sure your reading the right pic # and finding the right group. Not 100% sure I have much more to offer. hope you get this going though!