Baycool,
Nope, I never did figure it out. I do know that I can connect to my board through the ethernet port with out any problems. Everything works fine here, I can telnet in, ping it, and the web server runs just fine. I'm pretty sure this is a JTAG UART issue. I just don't know what yet.
I'm working on trying to figure this out. We got another custom board back late Friday. I will get that one up and running to see if the same problems arise.
I tried your trick of opening the IDE first. It still bombed on me.
I'll let you know if I find anything out.
Doug