That's actually a good question and one which I don't know the answer to.
I only use the 8-bit PICs when forced (and only really because they have USB device in PDIP and AVRs don't) and I have not used the PIC24 at all.
I do know the PIC24 peripheral set is supposed to be pretty much compatible with the PIC32 peripheral set, but I don't know how much further that compatibility goes.
Simon.