hi again,

about wire wrapping,
I had not heard about wire wrapping but similar thought had come to my mind, however i gave up on the idea thinking it may not be as robust as a solder-less board.

Now since you have mentioned it, after studying about wire wrapping on the internet I have one question left, what kind of poles to be used? can i use a thick ( 240 volts rating ) copper wire cut into 1 cm length as a pole, and use thin single strand copper wire for wrapping?
i have a drill with 0.5mm drill bit and a wooden sheet of around 3-5 mm thickness wont cost much, should it be enough?
i.e. : thin wooden sheet, thick solid copper wire poles and thin copper wire for wrapping, 40 pin socket , 4mhz crystal connected to socket (xtal pins) through very short (< 0.5cm) thin copper wire + caps.


clarification
my target was for a simple functioning circuit of 89s52, thats why all the code does is switches on the led.
I wanted to have a basic understanding of 89s52 hence the breadboard was used.
when i said it even works without decoupling, it is similar to a car being crash tested and the manufacturer saying you have a chance of surviving that in X percent cases, I simply wanted to find out the different outcomes,
similarly i tried the 4aa batteries, i was only trying to find if there is any possibility of its working say 1 in a 100 times with that voltage.

if you ask me what standard circuit i have chosen for my actual(non experimental ) application of 89s52? well , I still have to finalize it yet, however it will have proper decoupling for sure, and proper power input etc.

So you see guys i really meant it when i said i was fairly new to this.
hence i need to experiment more to understand what all you great intellects have already understood and are generous enough to share with me.

by experimenting just with simple program, i have been able to solve problems in advance, imagine a complex program and a lot of modules etc with a complex circuit, imagine the time you would have taken to understand the problem, imagine the irritation I would have gone through to type all this and that etc. now at least i will be sure that the power supply area , coupling etc. will not be the cause for a problem if it arises in the future circuits, that i may design.

once again thanks for all the help, for giving me good luck and for time spent on reading this particularly lengthy post.