Livecycle ES 8.2 Form Java API question - Adobe Livecyle ES running in Weblogic 9.2

not sure what forum to post this message in, so I will try here. Hopefully, someone can either assist me with the question, or point me to a better location to post. We are using the Java API (via EJB) to communicate with our Adobe Livecycle ES server (8.2). We only have two services installed (Forms and Output service) on our server. Our Adobe server environment is Solaris 10 and Weblogic 9.2. I am running a sample client app to make the calls to the adobe livecycle server. I am running my sample app in Jboss (the same server that comes with the turnkey install). I intially tested my sample app communicating with my local turnkey install (same JBOSS - so my client app and the adobe livecycle server were running on the same machine and were local to each other). everything was working perfect. then I tried to connect my same client app (running in jboss) to our remote adobe livecyle es server (again, weblogic running on solaris). I am getting a completely useless error in the jboss logs (see below). Here is a list of my jar files in my classpath:
adobe-forms-client.jar
adobe-livecycle-client.jar
adobe-output-client.jar
adobe-usermanager-client.jar
adobe-utilities.jar (weblogic specific)
wlclient.jar
I am not really sure what else I need to do to get my client app to remotely connect via EJB to our Adobe Livecycle ES server.
I have the following connection info:

Properties connectionProps = new Properties();
connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_DEFAULT _EJB_ENDPOINT, "t3://182.11.44.222:7001");
connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_SERVER_ TYPE, ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_WEBLOGIC_SERVER_TYPE);
connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_TRANSPO RT_PROTOCOL,ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_EJB_PROTOCOL);
connectionProps.setProperty("DSC_CREDENTIAL_USERNAME", "tester1");
connectionProps.setProperty("DSC_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD", "testerpswd");
ServiceClientFactory adobeServiceClient = ServiceClientFactory.createInstance(connectionProps);

just below is my error from the server.log ....I have pretty much no idea where to go from here. I know that I have a classpath issue (although, I am not sure why I didn't have the same problem when connecting to the jboss adobe livecycle server). I also wasn't able to locate this class in question (org/apache/log/format/Formatter) in any of the adobe jar files. I tried dropping in logkit.jar in my classpath, but still didn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated:

thanks

regards,
jp

2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log/format/Formatter
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.doSend(EjbMe ssageDispatcher.java:163)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.base.AbstractMessageDispatcher.send(A bstractMessageDispatcher.java:57)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClient.invoke(ServiceClient.java:2 08)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.livecycle.formsservice.client.FormsServiceClient.invokeRequ est(FormsServiceClient.java:429)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.livecycle.formsservice.client.FormsServiceClient.renderHTML Form(FormsServiceClient.java:125)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at com.adobe.livecycle.forms.RenderHTMLForms.doPost(RenderHTMLForms.java :32)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl icationFilterChain.java:252)
2008-08-27 15:48:58,542 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF ilterChain.java:173)
2008-08-2