UCB problem ...again part 2

Some of you might have remembered my old thread of the UCB problem. It's been a while since I worked on this project and have reinstalled windows (resetting everything).
I can't get the stepmotor test to work. It keeps having a communication error.
1. I know my boards are fine, I had it up and running before.
2. I know my tx/rx is working because I used the program by emf (http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?12,3874,4180#msg-4180) that tests the boards and power by flashing the LED repeatedly, another program takes any incoming numbers and flashes the LED that number of times, and another to send data back to a terminal program. So my board and tx.rx are fine.
I installed all the right java and serial files in the right place.
I set geometry to "cartesian" and port to "COM1".
I went into device manager and set COM1 to 19200 8bit no parity 1stop, no flow.
I tried stepmotor, stepmotor-small, and stepmotorX on different chips.


I'm pretty sure what I had to do to get it working last time was the device manager settings to set it from 9600 to 19200, but that didn't work this time. I tried the live CD earlier and it didn't work either.

I'm stumped, please help.

~Dylan

Update / bump

I got the live CD to work. I forgot to change the 'nullcartesian' to 'cartesian'.
I got the motor turning. This means my cable, com board, ucb board, and chip are all fine. Now I just have windows issues.

Hopefully this will help narrow down the problem and someone can help.
thanks in advance.

Dylan