Newbie Plugin Dev Question

Hey everyone. I’m a newbie plugin developer/tinkerer. I’m trying to get a better understanding of PHP and all things WP.

I’m working with the Wufoo API and jQuery Wufoo API plugin that Chris Coyier built. What I have so far:

1. Options page – successfully saving options to the DB
2. Dashboard widget – going to feed in Wufoo form info to a dashboard panel.
3. A huge headache. The jQuery plugin interfaces the Wufoo API via a PHP Class that pulls static info from a config file. What I want to do is set that static data (username/API Key) to the options in the DB. I can echo the get_option(); pretty much anywhere. I even wrote a custom query to pull it from the DB.

My challenges (are many): I can’t set the username/api_key var to the get_option() value or the custom sql query result. I can’t figure out why. Anyone out there able to assist? You’ll definitely get credit if/when I get this released.

Thanks.