Well I got the USB/serial adapter and it works great. A little pricey though, some I'm thinking about calling hanger 9 and seeing if they'll send me a USB type adapter so I can return this to radio shack. I know that most people will have a serial on their desktop, but I guess my point was that every computer made in the last 10 years has USB ports so, you'd think that's how they would send them out. It just seems like it might be kinda random whether or not you get the USB or the serial. Anyways I got it fixed, thanks to everyone that responded[8D]
Dave