Thank you, Tony and Paul.

Today I spoke with Dagolar and found out more details. He IS using a USB to COM converter, and he was using beta13 thinking it was the latest release (got confsed with version numbers 2.0 and 3.0) and at this point I don't know what else may be "worong".

I'll work on his empeg next wendnesday, and try to renstall everything from scratch on my laptop (which has a serial port).