avrdude problems with arduino diecimilia

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just got an arduino diecimilia board in the mail from sfe. running it on xp. downloaded the environment from arduino.cc, told my xp box about the drivers, etc.

it blinks as it uploads, but no blinking and the error message:

Stable Library

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Native lib Version = RXTX-2.1-7

Java lib Version = RXTX-2.1-7

Binary sketch size: 1096 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)

avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51

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aha! i solved my problem – the usb board thought it was hooked up as COM5, but the arduino dev environment software thought it should be talking to COM1.

changing that, all appears to be well and my LED is doing the blinkenlight thing.