upload issues with mega 2650, bootloader is timing out...

It seems there is an issue uploading on my machine. It seems that there is a timing issue, in that it when it does the auto reset... the program doesn't start to upload till AFTER the timeout. So, the program never loads. For some reason, if I open serial port in another program first, close it... the upload then works. This seems to be either a driver issue, like doing the init connection to serial port is taking to long, or there is a timing issue in the upload process? Has anyone seen this before? I have the latest drivers, and have looked through all the docs already.

Thanks,
Jesse

I used the avrdude.exe and avrdude.conf file from 022 and it worked fine for me. There seems to be a bug in avrdude 5.11.