Hey everyone, recently I messed up my bootloader quite nicely (see "A wierd error"). Through exhaustive research and trial and error I found that what I did was indeed frag my bootloader. Here is how I fixed it, I purchased an AVRISP MK2. and used the arduino environment to burn the bootloader as I could not get it to go through with AVR4 from atmel. here is the BIG thing to remember do not install the ISP with the drivers from atmel. use the drivers that come with the arduino environment!! i believe its libusb. after I did that it lit right up. This may be a duh moment but it took me forever to troubleshoot. I hope nobody has to go through what I did