Thank you for the advice guys! I did try two more times, but no success. Although I think I am getting it into bootmode, it starts writing, says SEED OK, then erasing...ok then start writting    followed by writting error.   I am leaving on spring break tomorrow and the ECU will be on it's way to ddillenger. I am going to build a bench harness and try to stock up a few ECU's to practice on etc... as well as back ups. Again, thank you guys for the info!!!

It seems that the more I do the more I want to pull ecus out to flash them... I had a 2004 mk4 auto that I did a read over obd2 and had a error that I had to pull the ecu to rewrite to clear. before that I had numerous me7.1's I had issues writing to inside the car... for the amount of time it takes I find its well worth it...jmo but it works for me... I made a bench set up with a old 650 watt atx power supply, a ecu plug I cut off a junk car and a obd2 and to obd1 adaptor for my mpps cable / vagcom