USB to Serial using FT232RL

Recently I was able to obtain a FTDI USB to serial chip for free. I took this opportunity to integrate it into my LED dot matrix circuit. I am still wiring the thing up but I already got past soldering it on the SSOP to DIP converter board, which is the most difficult part of the setup. With my school  year at college coming to an end my workload has ramped up and so I am unable to work on my projects for more than an hour at a time. However, I intend to complete this before leaving for home for summer break. I am basing my circuit design off of the sample configuration given in the ft232rl datasheet so it shouldn't be too difficult, but I forsee trouble in interfacing it with the PIC. Using their C18 complier should make it easier. As with all of my other circuits I will be posting the code up.