however i have spoken to the nice folk at mantech electronics , who have the blank eproms and will program a new one for me at a cost of 160 bucks which i feel is fair .
That's cool! Which one you get is down to the features you want. The UNO is cool because of it's stompbox feature. If you do get get the UNO, could you get me one too please? I'll give you the money.