Hi N0nce,
I did notice the difference in the guide between creating the 'bitcoin' user.  I believe I accounted for that in following the guide step by step and just used the futurebit user where necessary.  I just tried briefly to make the update you suggested to the debug file, however it is still not working.  I'll need to dive in a bit more tonight once my kid is asleep, maybe try again from scratch.  Thanks again for your help with a noobie like myself trying to fully utilize my apollo