Mark T, wonderful response and thats obvious, of which i didnt think of.. i will try that.. i did a lot of research last night in forums here and discovered some talk about the Arduino IDE software that if you use a Due you need to set the software up to know you have a Due and install the Due Sam boards (32bits ARM-cortex-M3) using the boards manager.. im at work now and not checked at home if i had done that b/c im getting old and cant remember.. lol. this may be the whole problem.. i will keep you informed.. if this is the case then Arduino needs to make this more known to do this as i only ran across this after at least a month of research into the problem
i just looked at my unused IDE here at work and i see that just enables the program to allow a Due to be found. which i know i have it found at home, so i guess i did this step alread b/c i know it shows up in my devices.. so.......