Thanks for the quick response.  I'm pretty sure the sketch is being sent.  I have the NG board so i've been pressing reset then sending the sketch to it.  I added  Serial.println("this is high"); to the statement to see if it was going through the loop properly and it does not print out....am i missing something?

Thanks in advance,

-matt

Hi,

I'm just getting started with the arduino and figured i'd give the pushbutton example a try.  When i connect up everything as shown on this page http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Pushbutton the LED gives me a flashing light instead of an on/off behavior... i'm stuck?  Is it supposed to give me a flashing LED? or a state-like behavior which would make sense.

Thanks,

matt