Lpc2000

> Anyhow, I always have the option of writing my own Flash Utility. It's
> just that windows programming seems such a distraction when all I want
> to do is embedded code.


You don't have to.

Try lpc21isp at http://guest.engelschall.com/~martin/lpc21xx/isp/

This has the benefit of being command line (ie easy to run from batch files 
or other tools). It is open source, meaning you can easily modify it to be 
used as a manufacturing jig etc. It works under multiple OSs.

The last time I checked, the Philips application still was quite fussy about 
some start-up conditions. lpc21isp had similar problems but they were fixed 
very quickly.