[teh_r4v3]

We finally figured out what it was. Turns out something wacky was going on with our laptop's serial port! Effectively, it was corrupting the code on the RC. (We realized this when we plugged in last year's board, and upon programming it suddenly displayed the same symptoms, much to our dismay!) It seems to be cured now; the RC took the hex from another laptop easily. We reworked some BIOS settings on the laptop for the COM port and now even that laptop is working fine. Altogether, it's been a pretty bizarre night. Anyways, so if anyone is having a similar problem, try using another laptop!