Using Eclipse and ColdFusion under Unix: RDS Problems

I'm on SuSE 10.3 (2.6.22.19-0.4-default) under Gnome.

I've been developing software for more years than I'd care to count.

I'm really new to ColdFusion.  I'm trying to support a site for a client that was developed using this tool.

I'm running ColdFusion 8.01 (Developer Version). from a download done on 6/7/2009.

I'm using Eclipse3.4.2 with the ColdFusion Extensions for Eclipse, Version 1.0.191910.

I also have version 1.3.2.200901041029 of CFEclipse Project installed.

I can provide whatever other version information is required.

I had all of the tools installed and playing together nicely back in June.

I had my workspace get corrupted, and have been trying to get things back together for a month.

It all seemed so simple, and worked the first time when I followed the examples for setting up debugging.

I may have been on a different version of Eclipse at the time.

I can't seem to get debugging installed and working for ColdFusion, despite Googling myself to death.

The Eclipse/ColdFusion versions that I find in the examples don't match, and things seem to rapidly change in that environment.

I've installed ColdFusion as a stand alone, with RDS installed and am using Apache 2.

I'm stuck trying to connect to the RDS server.  I've checked via netstat -an and don't see anything listening on port 8500.

I've got an RDS Dataview tab at the bottom of the screen in which there is a server of 'localhost'.  Trying to open that server results in a message of "Unable to contact the RDS Server 'localhost'.

Right clicking the server and selecting "RDS Configuration", I can change the configuration for localhost.

I've tried using port 8500 and port 80 and clicking on 'Test Connection' without success.

I've checked ../wwwroot/WEB-INF/web.xml to make sure that the RDS section was not commented out.

I added a '<load-on-startup>10</load-on-startup>' tag and then saw nine 'user RDSServlet: init' messages in the cfserver.log file, after I restarted ColdFusion.

I'll be happy to provide whatever logs or files that are needed to help diagnose this.

I'd be happy to hear just how simple it is to change a configuration somewhere so that it all starts working. 

I'd be more than happy to install whatever versions of software that would be necessary to get this working.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Don Phillips