trouble with serial communcation -- SrmSetWakeupHandler

I am attempting my first Palm app so be gentle.Basically I am using the serial interface to receive and display data. I am attempting to use SrmSetWakeupHandler but it's not going so well. When I run on the device itself everything is good until I actually try to shove data to the Palm. I get a

help creating a custom event loop

Hi all, New member with my first question. Can someone explain how to setup a custom event loop? I think I understand the general concepts, create a que, create functions for pointer initialization, adding events, consuming events, and cleaning up. It's the details i am a bit fuzzy on.