Getting weird characters in hyper-terminal on serial connection of PC and Atmega-16

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I have a Atmega-16 based board, connected via Max232 to pins 2,3,5 of a db-9 connector. The connector connects to a PC.
I am getting weird characters on hyper-terminal instead of normal "Hello World" for the serial test program. I have set both baud rate in Atmega-16 as well as hyper terminal to be 4800.
I am not getting any faults. Please help.
Thank you!

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The Serial pins of the Atmega16 are routed through a max232 to db-9, the circuit is same as this one:

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The settings on terminal are:

Data bits: 8
Stop bits: 1
Parity: none
Baud rate: 4800

The bascom code is:

$regfile = "m16def.dat"
$crystal = 2000000
$baud = 9600
Config Lcd = 16 * 2
Config Lcdpin = Pin

Cls

Cursor Off

Dim A As String * 1
Do
  A = Waitkey()
  Print A
  Cls
  Lcd A
Loop

End

The problem can further be viewed as: http://i.stack.imgur.com/dmnJo.png

The images showing the characters(10) i am receiving are:
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and the corresponding hex code that i am reciving is:

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Best Answer

Check the baud rate on the hyper terminal or the oscillator settings.

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