I learned that the class "featureLayer" can be used to display an individual layer within both a mapservice or a feature service..http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jsapi_start.htm[INDENT]dojo.require("esri.layers.FeatureLayer");
The feature layer inherits from the graphics layer and can be used to display features from a single layer in either a Map Service or Feature Service. The layer can be either a (spatial) layer or (non-spatial) table. If the underlying layer (or table) is from a Feature Service, its features can be edited. ESRI- Javascript API Reference
[/INDENT]Here is the code I now have that utilizes this method.. and it works!!:D var featureLayer = new esri.layers.FeatureLayer("http://gis.co.frederick.va.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/Fire_and_Rescue/Fire_and_Rescue/MapServer/8",{
mode: esri.layers.FeatureLayer.MODE_ONDEMAND,
displayOnPan:false,outFields: ["*"], opacity:.5, tileWidth:150, tileHeight:150, visible:false,
infoTemplate: infoTemplate
});