Lpc2000

I appologize for being clueless.  Any help would be very appreciated.

This is my first experience with writing embedded software.  I'm 
using an ARM7 on the LPC2294 board.  I have it plugged into a Phytec 
HD200 test board.  I used uV3 as an IDE for development.

So far I've successfully loaded and run the two example (blinky and 
Hello) programs specifically written for the lpc22xx board.  I've now 
moved onto the CAN examples.  The one I'm specifically trying to get 
to work is CANBlinky.  It compiles and I can put it on the board 
without problems and it appears to be running (the LED is blinking) 
but I'm getting nothing from CAN2 which is supposed to be 
transmitting A/D data.  Are there any gotchas when I try to run these 
CAN examples on the 2294 board?  The one thing I was mucking around 
with was the target options.  They were different than the ones in 
the other two examples.  I tried to make them match but some of the 
options weren't available on the CANBlinky program.  

Another thing I've noticed is in being able to debug.  With the other 
examples I was able to set breakpoints in the code and step through 
things.  This has been EXTREMELY helpful in helping me learn and 
understand what's going on.  But with the CANBlinky example, when I 
try and debug, my breakpoints are never hit and when I stop the 
debugger and try and step, All I ever get to see is the program 
pointer in the disassembler going repeating the same 5 or six lines 
of assembly over and over.  I never get to step through the code.

Lastly, does anyone have any suggestions as to resources I can take 
advantage of in learning the basics of programming for the ARM7?  Any 
books for beginners or the like?  I'm a bit over my head with this 
and it was dumped in my lap with a short timeframe to complete it.

Any help would be VERY appreciated.

Thanks.

Josh