So i tried that. i have ide 1.0 installed. however i get the following error message when i try to upload the sketch with the programmer.
avrdude: Version 5.11, compiled on Sep 2 2011 at 19:38:36
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\Suzanne\Desktop\arduino-1.0\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
Using Port : usb
Using Programmer : stk500v2
avrdude: usbdev_open(): did not find any USB device "usb"
I'm not sure about the whole "using port: usb" that doesn"t seem like a correct port name to me.