Hi Bill,
Following that link I came across with the Pk2cmd port to Linux, Pk2cmdLinux. With that program I can communicate with my breadboarded Junebug with firmware 2.3. Looks like I'm not gonna need the 1.2 preflashed after all, but I have to test this off a bit further.
Ramcheck
Edit: tested with a PIC12F675 as the poor victim, and guess what? it works! and it's really fast! I didn't even check the voltages yet (I hope I'm not busting off the poor pic)
Edit#2: now tested with a PIC18F2550, also good. Looks promissing. Now, I guess I could use that nice Junebug kit.
This brings me back to the puzzling question: why firmware 1.X wasn't working. I would be nice to be able to use piklab again.