Georgene
I am not clear about some aspects of your description of the symptoms. When you describe attempts to access devices on the network, is this just access from the primary router or is this access at the remote site, or access from some device at the primary site (telnet to the remote device)? And when you say: "Can log in to the primary router and all routers where the PVCs are configured" is this talking about telnet to these routers from the primary router? And how does this relate to the previous statement - first it sounds like no remote access then it sounds like access from primary router to remote routers is working. Can you clarify?
When you describe attepting show run or show frame p, if the router just sits and times out I would suspect a memory leak.
HTH
Rick
HTH
Rick