JQUERY & ColdFusion - ColdFusion Jedi's Modified Tutorial Example; my Fail. HELP!: cfml, ajax

JQUERY & ColdFusion - ColdFusion Jedi's Modified Tutorial Example; my Fail. HELP!

I'm trying to 'learn' how to use JQUERY and Coldfusion ... so I took a great 'tutorial' given by ColdFusionJefi (http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/4/8/ColdFusion-jQuery-and-Search-Example) ... and modified slightly to fit my datasource.

See code below; ... TestAjax.cfm ... calling Search.CFM.

Alas ... I'm so remarkably stupid ... that I cannot get this to work.
When I click the FORM's SUBMIT ... I get the 'fred' text (my test to prove search.cfm is called) ... but I get NO output from the <cfoutput>#url.search#</cfoutput> ...

and definitely NO database query result.

ARRRH!!!>..

Any ideas?
Richard

FILE: testajax.cfm:
-----------------------
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="jquery-1.3.1.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
   $("#searchForm").submit(function() {
      //get the value
      var search = $("#searchText").val()
      if($.trim(search) == '') return false
      var type = $("#mediatype option:selected").val()
      $.post('search.cfm',{search:search,mediatype:type},
          function(data,status) {
             $("#results").html(data)
          })
      return false
   })
});
 
</script>
 
</head>
 
<cfquery name="mediatypes" datasource="dbase">
select mkt_id, mkt_name from news_markets 
order by mkt_name asc 
</cfquery>
 
<body>
 
<form id="searchForm">
<input type="text" id="searchText" />
<select name="mediatype" id="mediatype">
   <option value="">Any Media Type</option>
   <cfoutput query="mediatypes">
   <option value="#mediatypes.mkt_id#">#mediatypes.mkt_name#</option>
   </cfoutput>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Search" /></form>
 
<div id="results"></div>
 
</body>
</html>
 
 
 
FILE: search.cfm
--------------------
 
<cfparam name="url.search" default="">
fred <cfoutput>#url.search#</cfoutput><br />
<cfif len(trim(url.search))>
   <cfset url.search = trim(htmlEditFormat(lcase(url.search)))>
   <cfoutput>#url.search#</cfoutput><br /><br />
   
   	<cfquery name="getMarkets" datasource="dbase">
	select context_text, count(*) as counter 
	from news_context 
	where mkt_id = "#url.search#" 
	group by context_text  
	order by counter desc limit 20 
	</cfquery>
   
   <cfoutput>
   <p>
   Your search for #url.search# returned #getMarkets.recordCount# result(s).
   </p>
   </cfoutput>
   
   <cfoutput query="getMarkets">
   <b>#getMarkets.context_text#</b> #getMarkets.counter#<br/>
   </cfoutput>
   
</cfif>

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