The fix: Change the namespace on the second line of /src/ANESampleTest-app.xml
FROM: <application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.6">
TO: <application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/13.0">
A brief and incomplete background: The file /src/ANESampleTest-app.xml is the ‘application descriptor file’. When using the project files downloaded with the tutorial (that contained the 3.6 reference), the builder did not find this compatible with the configuration on my computer (a trial version I installed today - 5/3/2014 - and patched according to the tutorial). I never did figure out how to lookup valid namespaces and am still confused about how all the sdk’s relate to each other. I stumbled upon this solution by creating a fresh new project and found that the namespace specified by the new project wizard was “13.0” on this line of this file.