[heydowns]

Hook up to the serial console and see what is happening as the system boots. You will get helpful messages as your program is attempting to load.

Also, your issue #1 is suspect. It should be PPC32gnu.

I'd suggest making a new project in windriver starting from the simple robot example, as explained in the control system docs. Nuke the example source code file and copy in your sources. Build the project. This should rule out anything wrong in the project build settings.

If that works, simply rename the project to a name of your choice.

Oh, and if you take this route, be sure to update the FIRST downloader settings (Window->Preferences) to point to the NEW binary in the NEW project. It will not update automatically and you'll just be downloading your old project build.