Hacktronics 20x4 LCD Ripping my hair out ;repost with complete information.

Just in the nick of time, I had one hair left.
Thanks to your suggestions I went back to square one and tried to load Blink. No luck loading Blink so I took a look at my com ports and I had 10+ of the darn things ranging into the high 20's. On top of that apparently 1.0.2 does not warn if the com port was not found, or at least it did not with mine. So going back to square one I confirmed which com port that Arduino was using and selected it from the menu and the darn thing uploaded and started working. Talk about feeling like and idiot! All is good with life again and I hope the rest of the hairs grow back.

Thanks for all the help...I learned an important lesson here.