Coldfusion MX7 desperate help: Flash remoting

What I am using:

Coldfusion MX7
Dreamweaver 8
Flash 8

I have a recipes database. Ultimately, i'd like to create a flash application that displays a "recipe of the day" on my website. It would would start with record 1, and every day, increase by 1... I assume I can accomplish this with application variables (but I don't know much about this yet).

I have a database set up, my website up, and everything is working. My next step is learning Flash remoting to be able to pull database data into my flash applications. So, I purchased Ben Forta's book "Macromedia COLDFUSION MX7 web application costruction kit" and i've tried for awhile to get an example in the book to work.

I understand that there is an issue with the examples provided with the book since I am using Flash 8. I read many different solutions online, but I still cannot get this to work. Here is my flash actionscript (which I changed to ActionScript 2.0 in publish settings):

import mx.remoting.NetServices;

// uncomment this line when you want to use the NetConnect debugger
// #include "NetDebug.as" 

// --------------------------------------------------
// Application initialization
// --------------------------------------------------

if (inited == null)
{  
  // do this code only once
  inited = true;
  
   // set the default gateway URL (this is used only in authoring)
NetServices.setDefaultGatewayUrl("http://localhost:8500/flashservices/gateway")
  
  // connect to the gateway
  gateway_conn = NetServices.createGatewayConnection();
  
  // get a reference to a service
  // In this case, the "service" is the /ows/23 directory in web server root
  myService = gateway_conn.getService("ows.23", this);
}


// --------------------------------------------------
// Handlers for user interaction events
// --------------------------------------------------

// This gets called when the "SearchButton" button is clicked
function SearchButton_Clicked ()
{
  // ... put code here
  // For example, you could call the "bbbb" function of "my.service" by doing:
  // myService.bbbb(123, "abc");

  // In this case, we want to use the SimpleSearchProvider service function
  // (in other words, we want to execute SimpleSearchProvider.cfm)
  myService.SimpleSearchProvider({SearchString:MySearchString});
}

// --------------------------------------------------
// Handlers for data coming in from server
// --------------------------------------------------

// This gets called with the results of calls to the server function "bbbb".
function SimpleSearchProvider_Result ( result )
{ 
  // ... put code here
  // For example, if result is a RecordSet, display it in a ListBox by doing:
  // myListBox.setDataProvider(result);

  // In this case, we will simply set the SearchResults variable to whatever
  // was returned by ColdFusion.  Because the SearchResults variable is bound
  // to the multiline text box in the search UI, the result will display there
  SearchResults = result;
}



stop();

Code (markup):

I do not get errors, but when I try to use the simplesearchmovie.swf, it does not retrieve anything when I type a keyword.

I think there's something wrong with the following line:

NetServices.setDefaultGatewayUrl("http://localhost:8500/flashservices/gateway")

Code (markup):

I added the database to this directory:

C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\ows\data

And added it in CFMX7 administrator. It is now listed as OK.

Also, here is the SimpleSearchProvider.cfm in the same folder:

<!--- 
 Filename: SimpleSearchProvider.cfm
 Author: Nate Weiss (NMW)
 Purpose: Provides a simple film search service for a Flash MX movie
--->

<!--- We are expecting a SearchString parameter from Flash --->
<cfparam name="FLASH.searchstring" type="string">

<!--- Query the database for any matching film records --->
<cfquery name="searchQuery" datasource="ows" maxrows="1">
 SELECT *
 FROM Films
 WHERE MovieTitle LIKE '%#FLASH.searchstring#%'
</cfquery>

<!--- Set the FLASH.Result variable to the summary of the returned film --->
<!--- This will be available as the “result” variable in the --->
<!--- SimpleSearchProvider_Result handler within the Flash movie --->
<cfset FLASH.result = searchQuery.summary>

Code (markup):

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong here?