Go figure. In all honesty I can't say if MultiDNC is all that great or not but after playing with another dnc program for five days with no sucess, it seemed like finding an oasis in the desert when I loaded it onto the machine and it was immediately able to send file to the Mitsu control. I haven't bothered to try to send files to any of the other machines or to learn the intracasis of the program. Sending programs is enough for the time being.
That said, the Fadal finally made its first chips so I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel