I took a look at Dschrammie's MD for him and turns out it was something with his computers or something else on his end. Firelord's neat little program fired that sucker right in and it worked a charm. I am thinking that maybe he was trying to load the wrong FW or something along those lines. If anyone else has those crazy VU problems, I would say to make absolutely sure you are loading the correct FW.
Thank goodness though, I am sure glad after I said it wasn't my hardware, that it really wasn't my hardware!!