I have been trying to burn the ATtiny45 w/ ArduinoISP bootloader onto an ATtiny using the guide here at http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1229
although I havent' been able to successfully burn the bootloader, I always get this first
Difficult to say what's going wrong. Perhaps you can post a photo of your circuit, so we can make sure the hardware is all good, then we can look at the software from there. Do you have the status LED's on pin 7, 8 and 9? did you update the delay(40) to delay(20) in the ArduinoASP schetch? look at the tx, rx, and pin 7,8,9 LEDs when you hit program. what do they all do?