John,
Just in case you are still having problems with your email, I have fixed the issues I had with programming the mega8.
I think the problem may have been with ponyprog. After experimenting with avrdude, I managed to program the mega8 successfully using the following command;
avrdude -p atmega8 -P lpt1 -c stk200 -U flash:w:AVRcam.hex
Cheers
Paul