Download to NG hangs from Wiring 016

I have an NG board which locks up Wiring 016 on download. The ATMEGA168 chip is live - I can use AVRISP to download a fresh NG bootloader. USB is on COM3 (WinXP system). Wiring 012 tells me that the "Programmer is not responding, to reset the board". Pressing the reset button does nothing obvious (no blinking LEDs). Running off of USB power; green LED is on. I'm pretty sure this board used to work under Win2K. I have fresh FTDI drivers. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bruce

I'm confused. Why are you using Wiring to download to an Arduino board? Have you tried the Arduino software?

So am I; thanks! (This "approach" was left over from a non-bootloader project.)