Configuration file being downloaded but not used...

Using CKEditor in a ClassicASP site via javascript call to load the editor, then replace the textarea after the page is rendered.

My issue is that no matter what options I set in the configuration (config.js) or a custom configuration file - these settings are not used by CKEditor. The ONLY way I can get it to accept configuration options is to call them directly when I use CKEDITOR.replace method, which is unacceptable to me. I should be able to hard-code the values I want in either the default configuration file or a custom configuration file and have them used as per the documentation, but this does not work.

<script type="text/javascript" src="/shared/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  CKEDITOR.replace('ride_description',{customConfig : '/shared/ckeditor/myconfig.js'});
</script>

Any advice as to why the config files, both default and custom are being ignored? Searching the forum for 'config file issue' is useless...