Hi all.. I tried this and it works.
Separately, when I try to burn fuses on an atmega using a usb to serial cable / prolific's latest driver / and avrdude I get out of sync 0x30 on stk500 and 0x01 error messages using stk500v2. Oddly, I was able to burn fuses before on windows vista but now since ive upgraded to windows 7 its no dice.
Strangely, I have no problem loading scripts to the atmega328p using arduino.. which i dont mind telling you is a relief. But still.. Id appreciate any help using avrdude.