XML - Categories/Levels Question

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, I'm sort of a noob but I'd like to think I have a brain 🙂

I'm using the videoplayer example files and seem to have it all figured out...except for the xml aspect (from what I gather). I am able to install the channel, but nothing happens when selected. My custom image shows fine though, since I edited the manifest file to point to my custom images, etc.

When debugging I get the following (amongst other stuff, I can post the entire thing if needed):

Syntax Error. (runtime error &h02) in .../pkg:/source/categoryFeed.brs(38)

along with

created feed connection for pkg:/xml/categories.xml
url: pkg:/xml/categories.xml
Took: 856ms
Can't parse feed

In the categoryfeed.brs file I have:

conn.UrlPrefix   = "pkg:/xml"
    conn.UrlCategoryFeed = conn.UrlPrefix + "/categories.xml"

My categories.xml file looks like this, there is only one "categoryleaf" currently but I plan to add more and re-package the channel as I update: (I replaced my actual tltle with "TITLE" & description with "DESC" for this post and didn't put the entire URL of the images, etc. - just wanted to show the structure):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<categories>
<banner_ad
sd_img="http://dl.dropbox.com...." hd_img="http://dl.dropbox.com......"/>
<category title="Videos" description="DESC"
sd_img="http://dl.dropbox.com..."
hd_img="http://dl.dropbox.com....">
<categoryLeaf title="TITLE" description="DESC" feed="pkg:/xml/5lcl.xml"/>
</category>
</categories>

Is there something I'm missing? BTW...I'm using the SDK v29 that was provided on the dev site. Windows 7 w/ PuTTY as my telnet terminal. I have a Roku 2 XD Software v4.1

Thanks in advance for your help guys!