What was the stumbling block? If it's something that's unclear in the tutorial, that's something we can fix.

Glad you got it working!
Apparently I did everything right. It appears that sometimes either a)The creation Kit has problems saving changes to a Mod, or

The game doesn't load the most recent version of the mod. I'm not sure which of these three steps did the trick, but when I get it to work I did three things:
Made sure the active file was saved (obviously), second, I closed the creation kit. Third: On the skyrim launch menu, I unchecked the mod and hit OK with only Skyrim.esm selected, and then went back and selected my Mod also (my thought was that it forces the game to retrieve the version of the Plugin on the HDD/