coldfusion verity error "bad key"

I was working on a client project today that required using Verity's vspider to index the site. I found out a couple of useful things:

1) You can't make a collection with the CF administrator and then have vspider index docs into it. You have to use vspider to make the collection and/or another utility. Info on it is at:

ColdFusion MX 7: Additional files for using Verity Spider

Turns out for CF 8, the files it says to download are already installed.

2) As it says in the KB article above, you then have to create the collection in the CF Admin for it to be visible to CF. This errored the first time I did it. I just deleted the collection through CF (because it still showed up despite the error) and then deleted the directory for it, redid the spider thing and then redid it in the CF Admin and it worked. The error may have been because I'd originally done something wrong.

3) I specified the "-language englishx" attribute for vspider even though that's supposed to be the default.

Here's the batch file I'm using to run this:

net stop "ColdFusion 8 Search Server"
C:\CFusion8\verity\k2\_nti40\bin\vspider -cmdfile E:\\cmdfile.txt
net start "ColdFusion 8 Search Server"

Here's the command file: (I don't know what the prefix file is for -- someone had set that up before me)

-common C:\CFusion8\verity\k2\common
-style C:\CFusion8\verity\Data\stylesets\ColdFusionVspider
-collection E:\
-prefixmap E:\prefixmap.txt
-start http://localhost
-language englishx
-exclude *.css
-cgiok

prefixmap.txt file:

vdkvgwkey http://localhost URL http://www..com