Hi Mellis,
Yeah, I tried burning the bootloader as the 168 on an NG board, but so far NG 
It looks like my mkII is still working, the lights still do their thing and I don't get any error messages, but who knows?
I have 4 diecimila boards on order, they should should be here next week, so even if this doesn't work I won't be out of commision too long.
One other thing I've noticed in my 10 months or so away from this stuff- the sketches I had from version 7, when re-compiled with 8, 9 or 10 are much smaller and didn't work on the NG boards I had with Atmega8 chips. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Dave