Spine getting started

Hi Fine folks,
I got a copy of Spine and am trying it out. Overall a nice process that works well.

Looking at the getting started documents ...

github.com/GarageGames/Torque2D/wiki/Animation-Guide
github.com/GarageGames/Torque2D/wiki/SkeletonObject-Guide

Here's the recommended steps I pieced together, with a problem I'll note at the end

1. Do your graphic in Photoshop or Fire Alpaca (ideally PS). Make each movable part a different layer
2. Use the PS script "scripts/photoshop/LayersToPNG.jsx" to export to to Spine (this script comes with the Spine installation, it's in the install directory of either platform). Create a atlas, png and json file
3. Create a "animations" subdirectory in your assets module
4. Create a CHANGEME.asset.taml file describing what you have in the same directory as the spine files, per the Animation-Guide above
5. Create your skeleton sprite via "%spritey= new SkeletonObject();" per the guide, and forth as shown above

Now the problem, I've done all that, but I get a run time assert() (which only shows up in debug compiled bits - buyer beware, it crashes in release bits)that the atlas hasn't been loaded. I'm mucking around with it but aren't sure what the problem is. Thoughts?

Edit: Here's the assert

AssertFatal(mAtlas != NULL, "SkeletonAsset::buildAtlasData() - Atlas was not loaded.");

in

void SkeletonAsset::buildAtlasData( void )

I also went into the taml file for the Assets module and changed it too

<ModuleDefinition
	ModuleId="Assets"
	VersionId="1"
	Description="A nice mix of assets used by all the toys."
	ToyCategoryIndex="0">
		<DeclaredAssets
			Path="assets"
			Extension="asset.taml"
			Recurse="true"/>
		<DeclaredAssets
			Path="assets"
			Extension="asset.json"
			Recurse="true"/>
		<DeclaredAssets
			Path="assets"
			Extension="atlas"
			Recurse="true"/>			
</ModuleDefinition>

so that it's reading everything in there - I think. But still the atlas isn't being loaded