Ok, some good new to report. I have made some progress on uploading a new sketch (firmware) to my Arduino UNO from and SD Card. Next will be to do some more testing then port it over the the Panther. This will make it easier to upload a new version of the firmware to a WORKING Panther chip. not a blank one, you'll still need a programmer to load what is called the bootloader, then you can use the SD Card to load the firmware.
Anyways thanks everyone of helping out.