A-Star 328PB loading woes

Just wondering if anybody here has been successfully using the Pololu A-Star 328PB board successfully.

I desperately need the extra pins it provides, and have spent about 10 hours cleaning up my IDE installations and trying endless other fixes... but it cannot upload to it from IDE

Have a lone board setting in a solderless breadboard (just to hold it still - no connections) and am using a Sparkfun FTDI board I've used for years... after an upload attempt, the USB port gets hung and has to be reset.

Pololu swears there is nothing wrong... so hoping to hear from somebody who has been successfully uploading to it.

=Alan R. :o

DON'T CROSS POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=568263
I HAVE REPORTED THIS THREAD TO THE MODERATORS

People were trying to help you on the original thread but you never bothered to reply. If you want help you need to be responsive.