Messages not being received or just not being published??

I humbly apologize if this is nothing more than a minor configuration oversight on my part, but I've hit a brick wall with this and I'm not sure what to do now.

Here's what I have....

I have node js installed with Drupal-7.12. I also have drupalchat installed, but that's not my concern. I have been attempting to send messages with System-Wide broadcast and with Drush to no success.

The drush command does nothing. Neither do any of the other send messages. No effect on the log output at all. Other browsers not seeing the messages.

drush broadcast-message hello hello

My config: ( I have drupal in a subdirectory of the web docs directory as I am developing multiple sites.
// ------------------
backendSettings = {
scheme:'http',
host:'localhost',
port:8080,
key:'',
cert:'',
resource:'/socket.io',
serviceKey:"",
backend:{
port:80,
host:'localhost',
scheme: 'http',
//authPath:'/pdlite/nodejs/auth/',
messagePath:"/pdlite/nodejs/message"
},
debug:true,
sslKeyPath: '',
sslCertPath: '',
//baseAuthPath: '/pdlite/sites/all/modules/nodejs/',
publishUrl:'/pdlite/nodejs/publish',
kickUserUrl: '/pdlite/user/kick/:uid',
logoutUserUrl: '/pdlite/user/logout/:authtoken',
addUserToChannelUrl: '/pdlite/user/channel/add/:channel/:uid',
removeUserFromChannelUrl: '/pdlite/user/channel/remove/:channel/:uid',
addChannelUrl: '/pdlite/channel/add/:channel',
removeChannelUrl: '/pdlite/channel/remove/:channel',
setUserPresenceListUrl: '/pdlite/user/presence-list/:uid/:uidList',
addAuthTokenToChannelUrl: '/pdlite/authtoken/channel/add/:channel/:uid',
removeAuthTokenFromChannelUrl: '/pdlite/authtoken/channel/remove/:channel/:uid',
toggleDebugUrl: '/pdlite/debug/toggle',
contentTokenUrl: '/pdlite/content/token',
publishMessageToContentChannelUrl: '/pdlite/content/token/message',
clientsCanWriteToChannels:true,
clientsCanWriteToClients:true,
extensions:["drupalchat_nodejs.server.extension.js"],
transports:["websocket", "flashsocket", "htmlfile", "xhr-polling", "jsonp-polling"],
jsMinification:true,
jsEtag:true,
logLevel:1
};

My log file seems to show no indication of the actual messages I am trying to send. Though, I can successfully kick a user, but cannot message them.

Extension loaded: drupalchat_nodejs.server.extension.js
Started http server.
   info  - socket.io started
Authenticating client with key "8ad3def2958c9edbd8be599ea392df8a"
Sending message to backend { authToken: '8ad3def2958c9edbd8be599ea392df8a',
  messageType: 'authenticate',
  clientId: '1985516778192478506' } { port: 80,
  host: 'localhost',
  headers: 
   { 'Content-Length': 172,
     'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' },
  agent: 
   { options: { host: 'localhost', port: 80 },
     host: 'localhost',
     port: 80,
     queue: [],
     sockets: [],
     maxSockets: 5 },
  method: 'POST',
  path: '/pdlite/nodejs/message' }
Valid login for uid " 1 "
getNodejsSessionIdsFromUid { uid: 7, sessionIds: [] }
sendPresenceChangeNotification 1 online { '1': [ 7 ] }
Auth - 1
Sent message to client 1985516778192478506
Added - 1
Added channels for uid 1: nodejs_user_1,nodejs_ajax_broadcast,pdlite_emergency_channel,nodejs_notify,watchdog_dblog
setupClientConnection { '1': [ 7 ] }
getNodejsSessionIdsFromUid { uid: '1', sessionIds: [ '1985516778192478506' ] }
Added channel 'drupalchat_1' to sessionIds 1985516778192478506
Added channel 'drupalchat_1' authenticatedClients
getNodejsSessionIdsFromUid { uid: '1', sessionIds: [ '1985516778192478506' ] }
Added channel 'drupalchat_1' to sessionIds 1985516778192478506
publishMessageToContentChannel: message { channel: 'watchdog_dblog',
  broadcast: false,
  commands: 
   [ { command: 'insert',
       method: 'before',
       selector: '#admin-dblog tr:eq(1)',
       data: '<tr class="dblog-cron dblog-warning"><td class="icon"></td><td>cron</td><td>2012-02-03 15:49:22</td><td>Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running.</td><td><span class="username">Anonymous (not verified)</span></td><td></td></tr>',
       settings: null } ],
  callback: 'nodejsNodeAjax',
  clientSocketId: '' }
publishMessageToContentChannel: The channel "watchdog_dblog" doesn't exist.
publishMessageToContentChannel: message { channel: 'watchdog_dblog',
  broadcast: false,
  commands: 
   [ { command: 'insert',
       method: 'before',
       selector: '#admin-dblog tr:eq(1)',
       data: '<tr class="dblog-cron dblog-notice"><td class="icon"></td><td>cron</td><td>2012-02-03 15:49:22</td><td>Cron run completed.</td><td><span class="username">Anonymous (not verified)</span></td><td></td></tr>',
       settings: null } ],
  callback: 'nodejsNodeAjax',
  clientSocketId: '' }
publishMessageToContentChannel: The channel "watchdog_dblog" doesn't exist.
Out - 1
Cleaning up after socket id 1985516778192478506 uid 1
Authenticating client with key "8ad3def2958c9edbd8be599ea392df8a"
Reusing existing authentication data for key: 8ad3def2958c9edbd8be599ea392df8a , client id: 12577511521618476851
Auth - 1
Sent message to client 12577511521618476851
Added - 1
Added channels for uid 1: nodejs_user_1,nodejs_ajax_broadcast,pdlite_emergency_channel,nodejs_notify,watchdog_dblog,drupalchat_1
setupClientConnection { '1': [ 7 ] }
getNodejsSessionIdsFromUid { uid: '1', sessionIds: [ '12577511521618476851' ] }
Added channel 'drupalchat_1' to sessionIds 12577511521618476851
getNodejsSessionIdsFromUid { uid: '1', sessionIds: [ '12577511521618476851' ] }
Out - 1
Cleaning up after socket id 12577511521618476851 uid 1
Authenticating client with key "8ad3def2958c9edbd8be599ea392df8a"
Reusing existing authentication data for key: 8ad3def2958c9edbd8be599ea392df8a , client id: 2355172521849173361
Auth - 1
Sent message to client 2355172521849173361
Added - 1
Added channels for uid 1: nodejs_user_1,nodejs_ajax_broadcast,pdlite_emergency_channel,nodejs_notify,watchdog_dblog,drupalchat_1
setupClientConnection { '1': [ 7 ] }
getNodejsSessionIdsFromUid { uid: '1', sessionIds: [ '2355172521849173361' ] }
Added channel 'drupalchat_1' to sessionIds 2355172521849173361
getNodejsSessionIdsFromUid { uid: '1', sessionIds: [ '2355172521849173361' ] }

My versions are:
node v0.4.8 (I also tried with v0.4.7, no difference)
connect v0.1.8.5
express v2.5.6
socket.io v.0.8.7

From what I can tell, assigning user to channels seems to work. Users can see their buddy list with the 'chat' link. Actual chatting clearly won't work at this point.

I attempted step through the code with a debugger (macgdbp) and it kept freezing up so I wasn't able to step through and see what was going on.

Any ideas you can suggest are appreciated. I've been working at this for days.

debra