Thanks again. I decided to test it to see if that was the issue, so I removed the quotes and the CDATA but when I went to import it, I got a fatal error:
XML Error: Attribute without value on line ...
Something else going on there that I have figured out yet.
Given that I am using this as an opportunity to learn how products/plugins are suppose to work together, I think this is a good thing that its making me debug it.
thanks again.
Michael