Why FFCmdRenderer BLOWS for MAC ...

1) I'm an artist ..... not a programmer.

2) I understand (mostly) the instructions for FFCmdRenderer found here: http://www.filterforge.com/more/help/Miscellaneous/CommandLineRenderer.html, BUT, I have no clue WTF this means when I try to run it: "Parse failed: not well-formed (invalid token) (file 'batch.xml', line 4, column 24)"

3) Funny this is, I'm COPYING straight fr om the example batch sample located here: Applications/Filter Forge 4/Resources/System/BatchSample.xml

4) So there error is somewhere within these lines:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Tasks>
<Task>
<Image value="" width="300" height="400" />
<Selection value="" />
<Result path="~/Documents/Wood.bmp" />
<Filter value="~/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 4/System/Library/Library_284-1.ffxml" />
<Preset value="0" />
</Task>

5) and THIS is why FFCmdRenderer BLOWS .... does the FF staff REALLY think this is easy, let alone efficient?

Can anyone explain what is wrong in line 4 ... and uh .... WHERE column 24 is

Thanks,

joBox

Will reply shortly ...

and this is the full xml file that was copied fr om the example file (just to make SURE I wasn't doing anything wrong):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Tasks>
<Task>
<Image value="" width=“400" height="400" />
<Selection value="" />
<Result path="~/Documents/Wood.p”g” />
<Filter value="~/Library/Application Support/Filter Forge 4/System/Library/Library_284-1.ffxml" />
<Preset value="0" />
</Task>
<GlobalSettings>
<RenderingOptions>
<UseMultithreading value="true" />
<Dither value=“false” />
<Progressive value="true" />
<OptimizeBlurs value="true" />
<AntiAliasBitmapComponentSources value="false" />
<Jitter value="0" />
<TemporaryFilesLocation value="" />
<RAMUsageLim it value=“90" />
<NormalMapFlipY value="false" />
</RenderingOptions>

<DefaultFormat value=“PNG” />
<BMP>
<BitDepth value="32" />
<FlipRowOrder value="false" />

<JPG>
<Quality value="98" />
<FullPrecision value="true" />
</JPG>
<TIF>

<FloatFormat value="false" />
<IncludeTransparency value="true" />
<ImageCompression value="LZW" />
</TIF>
<TGA>
<BitDepth value="32" />
<IncludeTransparency value="true" />
<FlipRowOrder value="false" />
</TGA>
<PNG>
<BitDepth value="16" />
<IncludeTransparency value="true" />
<ImageCompression value="BEST" />
</PNG>
<EXR>
<BitDepth value="32" />
<IncludeTransparency value="true" />
<ImageCompression value="PIZ" />
<FlipRowOrder value="false" />
</EXR>
<PFM />

</GlobalSettings>
</Tasks>

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the formatting is all screwed up now

That's why you'd better attach the xml file to the post rather than copying its contents. I can also see some garbled text in the Result path value.