Ok, it was the debugger slowing things up. I was having trouble getting the pod to run stand-alone to see any signalling, but once I did, the device truly flies. More then enough HP for what I need.
Now on to the next thing:
Getting the Beans in CodeWarrior setup to create the 32kHz sampling rate all interrupt driven. I want to write my code as an event-driven interface. However I am really struggling with these timer modules and the PWM, which I cannot seem to get enabled to give me a pulse train on a single output. I have some things to try still, but this is tough to do between dinner, bath for Joe, and bed...
This is certainly not the HCS08, which I have a lot of experience on. (Using the BDM, that is why the speed confusion).
BTW is there a more active forum sponsored or otherwise for newb questions like this? This one seems pretty dead compared to the old Yahoo groups.
-Mark