Okay, so when I plug it in, I see just one light on the robot side. The light is red when it is not plugged in to the board, and green when it is. I see no light on the USB end of the programmer, like there would be normally. I tried connecting the programmer to a USB port, and let the netbook search for drivers on it's own, and I saw:
"There was a problem installing this hardware:
AVRISP mkII
An Error occurred during the installation of the device
A service installation section in this INF is invalid."
Any ideas what I can do? I do really appreciate the help.