Barry Block's picture

I ended up effectively working around the problem by simply not using TKL.  When all else fails, just roll your own!  ;-)  I simply booted into a Linux Mint 15 liveCD (Mate edition) and installed LAMP + phpmyadmin + Wordpress on top of it.  The RSS feeds worked right out of the gate and I was therefore able to install my Wordpress plugin and debug the problems it was causing to the feed (which turned out to be really simple given that the latest Wordpress version tells you during activation if a plugin causes problems to the RSS feeds). 

For the benefit of others, I created a short tutorial here: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1434

"Now get this honky, you go tell Raphael that I ain't taking no jive from no Western Union messenger..."