diff --git a/js/updater.js b/js/updater.js
index bc2219e..195b5f2 100755
--- a/js/updater.js
+++ b/js/updater.js
@@ -114,26 +114,30 @@ var ucsUpload = function(strUploadHandler, strData) {
         return;
     }
     jQuery.ajax({
-        url: strUploadHandler,
-        type: 'POST',
-        data: strData,
-        dataType: 'json',
-        success: function(ajaxRespond) {
-                var jsonObj = ajaxRespond;
-                // alert(jsonObj.status + ': ' + jsonObj.message);
-                alert(jsonObj.message);
-            },
-        error: function(ajaxRespond) {
-            alert('UCS Upload error with message: ' + ajaxRespond.responseText);
-            }
-        });
+      url: strUploadHandler,
+      type: 'POST',
+      data: strData,
+      dataType: 'json',
+      success: function(ajaxRespond) {
+              var jsonObj = ajaxRespond;
+              // alert(jsonObj.status + ': ' + jsonObj.message);
+              alert(jsonObj.message);
+          },
+      error: function(ajaxRespond) {
+          alert('UCS Upload error with message: ' + ajaxRespond.responseText);
+          }
+      });
 }
 
 /* invoke UCS record update */
 var ucsUpdate = function(strURLHandler, strData) {
-    strData = strData.trim();
-    jQuery.ajax(strURLHandler, {
-        type: 'POST',
-        data: strData
-        });
+    strData = jQuery.trim(strData);
+    jQuery.ajax({
+      url: strURLHandler,
+      type: 'POST',
+      data: strData,
+      dataType: 'json',
+      error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {  alert('Error updating UCS : ' + textStatus + ' (' + errorThrown + ')'); },
+      success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {  alert('UCS record(s) updated'); }
+      });
 }
diff --git a/ucnode.inc.php b/ucnode.inc.php
index 38601f2..dc5c4c1 100755
--- a/ucnode.inc.php
+++ b/ucnode.inc.php
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     die("can not access this file directly");
 }
 
-$ucs['serveraddr'] = 'http://127.0.0.1/ucs-2.0'; // UCS server address. NO TRAILING SLASH! for local testing on Windows machine don't use localhost, use 127.0.0.1 instead
+$ucs['serveraddr'] = 'http://127.0.0.1/ucs2'; // UCS server address. NO TRAILING SLASH! for local testing on Windows machine don't use localhost, use 127.0.0.1 instead
 $node['id'] = 'slims-node'; // node ID
 $node['password'] = '2325f677e21c1613909c953eb03c57352259cc5d'; // default is s0beautifulday
 $node['name'] = 'SLiMS Library'; // node name