I have had some help from some others on this issue but the battle continues and I am perplexed as to why this might be happening.
I am grabbing a HTTPService from my site <mx:HTTPService id="tempXML" url="https://mysite.net/interface.php?action=showopen&operation=showassets&format=xml&opstatus=crit" /> and displaying it in a TileList <mx:TileList dataProvider="{tempXML.lastResult.asset.fleet}" width="344" backgroundColor="#000000" color="#ff0000" fontSize="27" borderColor="#000000" columnWidth="300" rowHeight="50" themeColor="#808080" fontWeight="bold" allowMultipleSelection="true" id="TileList1" height="0" y="202" x="178"/> and then refreshing the data every 5 minutes or when a user pushes a button. before I was trying to call the data with a mx:XML and the data was displaying but the data would not refresh. Looking through the docs it seems that that is the expected response. changing to the Service request I can look through firebug and see that the request is being made and that the server is returning the proper xml but now the TileList is not displaying any information. I have tried to look through the docs to see what might be the cause but not solution has presented itself.

