Hi Jason, I managed to get it working. I think the issue lies within your text editor, I was having problems with your backend pages not loading up correctly, and in some cases and it may be sticking in some extra codes when you save. Once I switched the settings to "No Editor" and pasted in the demo article code it worked fine. You can make that setting under "Global Configuration".
It says your using TinyMCE, but it looks like a mod of some sort. I would maybe look at reinstalling that or turning it off when working with rokstories articles, it's causing you some problems. You can also edit settings in the "Plug In Manager" - Here is some info from another post:important:
make sure to edit your rokstories articles with your editor switched off or using the rokpad editor. many other wysiwyg joomla editors incl. the default joomla editor tinymce are famous for stripping out and modifying html code upon saving the article if not configured properly. this will cause rokstories to fail!! if using tinymce make sure to set "code cleanup on startup" = off and "code cleanup on save" = never.
By the way, I created a new category / section called FP-Rokstories, there are 4 demo articles in there. Hope that helps.