Thanks for posting this, I'm sure it will help the next person who upgrades. You might want to diff your version of the Oracle driver with the one in the AOLserver repository on SourceForge. I know that #1 should no longer be necessary, so you might be missing other patches.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/aolserver/nsoracle/ora8.c
