hi david,
i haven't used RapidFeeds but I can tell you the reason your links don't go anywhere is there's no value for the href in your <a> tags; where there should be an address, there is just an empty string. I would guess that this field was left blank by your client when they set up the RapidFeeds account because they were waiting for the URL to be created by you. Hopefully when you tell them the final web address of the pages they can just plug this information in on their RapidFeeds account and it will work from there. Alternatively if the pages already exist hopefully all they have to do is go in and fill out the rest of the information.

This was probably a typo or problem with the way tribe displays code, but another thought was that your @readfile statement should be terminated with a final "); for proper parsing. I'm thinking that it is probably there in the real live example that's posted to your server, otherwise you'd get an error message or blank screen instead of the menu of links.

have a great day!