I set up the dragon with a small disc pretty much the way you suggested, I use the fire setting from the tutorial smoke,wind,and fire, in the hash book from 2001.
I rendered your blowtorch. what a beautiful flame.
I did a quick test applying your fire material to my model, it worked cool,. so now i'm going to apply it to the dragon in Elderwood file, I'll post it when done. but before I use your fire material, I wanted to check with you to make sure it OK to use with my model
thank you robcat