Thanks again. My arduino is fried, left it plugged in during massive electrical storm >:(. Funny thing is I had a kill-a-watt plugged in and it survived, and measured a 3.7 Kv spike. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the arduino never had a chance at anything above 10v. Anyway, the nice thing about arduinos is that they come a dime a dozen. So I went on over to the website, and saw the "were cooking something new for you" message. What do you think, should I wait and buy the soon-to-be-released arduino or just buy another duemilanove 328?