I disabled the Infrared Device in my Device Manager and tried again with no prevail, i then tried to connect with HyperTerminal and when i rebooted i got a bunch of text, i assume the normal prompts:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux....................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50-hijack-v265 ([email protected]) (gcc ve
rsion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed May 1 11:01:24 EDT 2002

ETC....
i assume this means the serial port is working fine and the empeg is working fine, what are my options at this point?