At my wits end: Placing anchored object inline with text & wrap

Granted I never learned InDesign the way I should. Once upon a time I fared well with Aldus Pagemaker. But I've just spent the last two hours trying to resolve a massive gap in my knowledge and I can't do it. I'm exasperated and desperate for help.
What I want to do: I have a tech manual with lots of text and need to place graphic objects in a way that the text will wrap around the object and if I need to edit the text, the graphic will move with where I inserted the graphic.
What happens:
1. I have a text frame with text. I place the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph and click File> Place, thereafter choosing a graphic.
2. Using the selection tool, I click the graphic and then click the icon "wrap around bounding box".
3. The text shifts a teeny bit but does not wrap around the object.
4. Object is, however, inline/anchored, with text.
OR
1. With nothing selected I click File> Place, thereafter choosing a graphic.
2. I place the graphic on the lower part of the page over a blank space.
3. I move the graphic over the text and then click the icon "wrap around bounding box".
4. The text flows but when I edit the text, it does not flow around the graphic.
Conclusion:
I am retarded. I even went through Lynda's example here: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0073 I was able to place my object in her document and watch the text flow around the text wrapped graphic.
I read the help docs (I'm a big fan of reading).
The only thing I can think of is I've set my text box up wrong or I have no idea. I'm so frustrated I am seriously almost in tears.
My example document (I'm under an NDA and can't release my original document, but I duplicated what I've done in the previous one) is here for anyone who can tell me what I've done wrong. Thank you kindly.
http://www.xandria.ca/test01.indd

Alrighty, this is bizarre. I couldn't leave well enough alone and I'm still trying to hammer this one out. But I just followed my first method described in the original message and then...
I clicked and dragged the edge of my graphic and the text began to flow around it and it moves with the text.
What on earth?
While I can do this for each image, I'd rather not. What am I still doing wrong, although I seem to have a half baked workaround.
Cheers.

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