LOL, that's what I suggested. The real issue here is that the Pickit-3 is NOT a chip programmer like the Pickit-2, it is an entry level debugger that can be loaded with programmer firmware. They appear to still be workking out the bugs on the programmer side and perhaps it will never be as rock slid as the Pickit-2 was but the more features that you add, the mre that can go wrong.