sounds like it then. is the spoon chip removeable on a zif socket, or is it soldered directly to the ecu board? if it's removeable it's possible the chip got scrambled or inserted wrong. reflashing the chip may help, but it probably won't be the same program.

most of the spoon programs aren't really spoon programs anyway...most people just jack up the timing, fuel, vtec, and rev limit and call it a spoon chip.