New Post: SPServices on a Team Site

The relative pathing works as I'm getting response XML. Even when I hard code the complete URL I get the same result. I get response XML but can't do anything with it. It's almost like there is a setting that IT turned off to disallow writing back to the DOM.

I also thought about the SPFilterNode. Is there anything else that might work insead of "z:row"?

Is there any other special issue with using SPServices on a team site?

PS. this is a calendar list that I'm pinging.