Turn on verbose output and post the results.
Verbose output?
Thank you all for the help. Like I said, I am still getting the error. I have checked connections, put a fresh chip on the board, messed around with the 10uf cap, made sure I had the core in the right folder and the text correct, rechecked all of that over 3 times, and I still get the error. I dont know what to do or what I am doing wrong. I am thinking about getting a couple of attiny45/85's and try to program them because they seem to be more popular and have been more successfully programmed with more stable cores..........or not.....
anyways, thanks for all the help 