Good. I am glad that you figured it out.
Regarding the Arduino sketches, I do not think you will be able to upload them without having the correct firmware as JPMontero pointed out.
There is however something that can be tried
The new Arduino IDE will not allow uploading sketches on an old firmware.
You can try to manually insert the sketch and run it. Try crawling the web to find some info on this. I recall something like this being discussed in the community.