Wish I'd been able to find this information 4 days ago. Probably would've saved me 3 days of rewrite.
Water under bridge. Good solid answer though. I COULD use the local connector with the way I had this configured originally.
I may go back and do it later. JConsole was connecting to my server nicely and reporting back queue names and values as well as every other blessed thing that was needed.
At present there's no time. It's in SVN, but I have to deliver.
THANK YOU !!!
BJ