Errors in Flex communication with coldfusion

So i've had a bad 24 hours. I've had my server go down and I can't get flex to work on my local machine. I've been fighting trying to get it to work so I can take advantage of Brian Rinaldis Code Generator. It all started when i got an error saying:

Hmm, well that doesn't really help. I did a bit of searching and found a hint in some comments on boyzoid from Bruce that suggested that

the Flex2Gateway to work correctly in CF the Java VM (virtual machine) must be higher then 1.4.2_05.

So of i went to update my JVM here (link found here)

I followed the tech note which informed me:

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2, JRun 4 Updater 6 have been certified for JVM 1.4.2_11.

I then followed the TechNote 2d547983 for more information on how to switch ColdFusion/JRun to use the new JVM. It tells me that I need to change the path to the JVM to the new downloaded JVM:
C:/j2sdk1.4.2_11/jre -
This can be found in c:\jrun\bin\jvm.config | note the forward slashes!

I then did a couple of reboots and checked to see that my JVM file had been updated (http://localhost/CFIDE/administrator/reports/index.cfm)

This looked great - i started the cfcGenerator and i didn't get the error mentioned above... I got his one instead:

could not find coldfusion component

Now I know that I have the correct mappings because I can run the pages directly and the test page runs fine: http://cfcgenerator/com/cf/model/test.cfm

A bit more searching and I can see from a comment by Timothy Rubel on a post at Ben Fortas blog, that I might need to update JRun. I do this and reboot. Again no joy.

A bit more searching and I see that Flex binds on port 1099, and this is hard coded so sadly this can't be changed. I then see if anything else is bound to this port and notice that jrun is also running on this port, thanks to Sarge for his post.

I then think I might try changing my server identity in the administrator (I'm willing to try anything at this point) and click update..., bang! I then get this error

So more searching... and this is starting to really bug me now, and I find that it's a known issue with Adobe

Summary
I did all the above change and still i can't get the damn thing to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions?