Yeah its the ATMega chip, I think in my post I made it seem like i said pickit 3 when i said "how to program the pic, 3 arrived today" where as I probably should have said 3 of the ATMega's arrived today haha.
I've seen I can use the parallel port on my computer, I've looked over it again and I think I've worked it out the only think I'm not sure about is pins 12,11,2,3 am I right in thinking I have to join pins 2 and 12 together and pins 3 and 11 together? Everything else seemed to make sense and I hope to order the parts for the rest of the board soon so I can start playing around.
Steve