Hi Mr. Calix!!!

After reading all this messages, I have the following conclusion:

1) Your programmer does not support saving of EEPROM contents at the recording time of device.
2) The best technique, in this case is use an initial algorithm in your code to verify if exists a "magic" (read: predetermined and predicted) value on a certain position of EEPROM, like this: at adress $0065 it must have $34 byte. If your algorithm does not found this magic value at this adress, YOU MUST SAVE YOUR INITIAL VALUES IN CODE. Otherwise, when you found your magic value at the adress, no EEPROM initialization is necessary. The job is done.

Best regards

Elieser