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

Hmmm...nothing is coming back from the Atmega at all. Do you have a way to get the fuse info off the chip. If not, Nick has a sketch...
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,73748.0.html

The only other thing of interest would be getting the actually voltage coming off of the Vcc on the FTDI.