Windows recognizes Arduino but wont assign COM port

Louis,

Yes it does and I forgot to specify the chip. It is a USB2Serial Light adapter. The first time I got communications working, I just plugged in the adapter to the arduino and used the drivers from the arduino 1.0.3 build. I don't think I had to install anything else. This has been my standard practice for communications with this arduino and everything has worked out thus far.

Matt