trouble with socket gateway and an as3 xmlsocket connection

I succesfully set up the socket gateway and am able to conect to the CF socket gateway and send data from flash to the gateway.

The error I keep getting is when I add return value to the "onIncomingMessage"... cf error always logs "Cannot send outgoing message. OriginatorID "123124124" is not a valid socket id.

I am passing the originatorID as in the docs.... my question is what is a valid originatorID?

<cffunction name="onIncomingMessage" output="no">
<cfargument name="CFEvent" type="struct" required="yes">

<!--- Create a return structure that contains the message. --->
<!--- Get the message. --->
  
   <cfset message="#CFEvent.Data.message#">
   <!--- Where did it come from? --->
   <cfset orig="#CFEvent.OriginatorID#">

<cfset retValue = structNew()>
<cfset retValue.OriginatorID = orig>
<cfset retValue.MESSAGE = message>

<!--- Send the return message back. --->
<cfreturn retValue>
</cffunction>

I really hope I can get an answer hardly any docs or anything online on how to correctly return a message via a socket gateway.

Thank you.