Hi Tom:
  When you say you presses Launch firmware, did you load the MachIV forware 
first?
 Basically, it works this way, you connect using Gloader, then you set a 
timeout of 5 seconds on the html page, load the MachIV firmware usign the 
html page, also load the fpga config using the html page. Then, you can 
press launch..
  If you didnt load the firmware, power i foff, and then on, and reconnect 
using the Gloader. Its why you need that 5 second delay, youll get no 
connection when the firmware is running. If you DID do all the above, you 
now need to run MachIV. Does it run and connect? There is a G100 page in the 
MachIV software which will show you in real time the communications to the 
G100..
 Let me know where your at and Ill help you get it running..
Thanks,
Art