hi does anyone know if its possible to get the olimex msp430 jtag tool to work with crossstudio?
The Olimex JTAG pod is basically a clone of the TI JTAG pod so it should work OK. I use both TI and Olimex pods interchangeably – I have several of each around and usually use whatever is most handy.,
I don’t use Crossworks, but I evaluated it over a year ago and I used the Olimex pod with it and it worked fine.
cool seems to work fine so far 
and with much less setup hassle than a usbp