thank you jpwagoner....I needed that one!

Here are the steps that worked (finally) for me:

1. Login as 'sa' on your local sql 2005 server.
2. Create a new database
3. In a new query window, run this script: ALTER DATABASE...

I was not getting any results either in a new database until I ran this script to enable the serice broker in my database:

ALTER DATABASE [DatabaseNameHere] SET...