Measuring board pins with a multimeter.

avr_fred:
Totally different screens than you posted. Avrdude v5.11 was packaged with the download. What version do you have?

you mean the verbose output ?
sorry, i didn't mention i truncated the top parts which were exactly the same;

Binary sketch size: 1,084 bytes (of a 30,720 byte maximum)
C:\arduino-1.0.5-windows\arduino-1.0.5\hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -CC:\arduino-1.0.5-windows\arduino-1.0.5\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -v -v -v -patmega328p -cstk500v1 -P\\.\COM14 -b19200 -

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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:\arduino-1.0.5-windows\arduino-1.0.5\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : \\.\COM14
         Using Programmer              : stk500v1
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 19200
         AVR Part                      : ATMEGA328P
         Chip Erase delay              : 9000 us
         Programmer Type : STK500
         Description     : Atmel STK500 Version 1.x firmware
         Vtarget         : 0.0 V
         Varef           : 0.0 V
         Oscillator      : Off
         SCK period      : 0.1 us

i have again left out some parts - all those Send: and Recv: [xx] lines

the version is the same v5.11 - and FWIW, i had to "cd_" to the directory to run the .exe, couldn't run it from any other directory (PATH-related issue ?).

also; while trying out Ladyada's tutorial on avrdude; i did try (from the command line) running

avrdude -c asdf

but the response was;

avrdude: can't open config file ""; No such file or directory
avrdude: error reading system wide configuration file

that 'asdf' was on purpose (by Ladyada) so that it responds with a list of supported programmers.