CrossRoads:
The PC should recognize the MKii being plugged in.
If not, do the New Hardware install thing or Linux equivlent and use the drivers provided with Arduino, my path is:
c:\arduino-1.0.1\hardware\tools\avr\utils\libusb\bin
(might have the slashes backwards there)You do have avrdude installed if you have the IDE running.
Yes, can burn & re-burn to your hearts content, up to 10,000 times or maybe 100,000 times, I don't remember the number in the datasheet.I'd start with the MKii driver.
I'm in a windows environment. After some digging around on the web, I'm starting to see that I need a 'JTAGICE mkii' driver in the same folder as the windriver file. My dvd player on this laptop is toast. I'd like to put that jtagice file in there, but can't seem to get it to load (don't really know how to load it). When I bought the AVRISP programmer, I got a disk that says 'technical library' with it. I have other PC's at the house here, but I think I should just be able to get the file off of the web. It's giving me fits trying to get the 'JTAGICE' file in there. Maybe windows issues are outside this forum's scope, but I'm not sure how to get it in there.