Brian got me hooked up with the right error messages and I got my BlogX web view working... still fairly limited. For some reason the RSS feed is coming off as text/html, even though I do:

Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "text/xml";

In my Page_Load... this works on my local machine and when hitting the machine with localhost at the site... however when we hit it from the machine name it reports text/html... hmm...