You're right...that fixed it. It seems to be that I just simply "FAIL" when it comes to JSON. I had assumed that in JSON (like in JavaScript) " == ' . This is not the case. As you'll notice above I have single quotes around the values, this forced me to use double quotes around the key definition so that it'd be accepted by CouchDB. This was causing the issue, I switched to double quotes and dropped the quotes on the outside of the key and it works fine.
Thanks! Timothy
