Wild Foamy, on our electric motors there are 3 wires. Please be careful with some of your statements

roamingrichy,

These three are connected directly to the ESC. The color coding on these three wire means absolutely nothing. On the three I own they are all black on the motor and red/white/yellow on the ESC.

The other problem could be having the channel reversed in the radio. Switching the prop around will not cure this particular problem at all

My I suggest either the electric forums for more help than you could ever want or RCU's sister site:

http://www.wattflyer.com

This is is all about electric flight with tons of great info