Trying to use stand alone FT232RL not working (w/ 328)

Pretty much identical to what I have, nothing is working or happening though, using ArduinoISP will upload a sketch without a hitch, optiloader will put a bootloader on it without a hitch, but trying to communicate with it on this FT232RL just will not... I even tried putting a sketch with serial communications to see if i could atleast serial monitor it, but nope.