Better debugging than cfdebug in cflayout?

I am using cflayout extensively in an app.

But I find the debugging useless.  So I must be doing something wrong.

It loads and I get error ...

"Error retreiving markup for element cf_layoutareamanage: OK

[Enable debugging by adding 'cfdebug' ...

Adding that provides me with an AJAX window with error:

error:http: Error retrieving markup for element cf_layoutareamanage : OK

More helpful?  I think not.

What does one do to see the error?