After reporting success in moving the AuxConfigDir parameter to another section, I discovered what is reported above: that AOLserver only reads .ini style files from that directory. Since I had already converted this to a .tcl file, I went to bed hoping the inevitable "this is the way it is done" responses would appear. Thanks!
For those who have not tracked down Rob Mayoff's superior ini2tcl conversion utility, here is the link to his AOLserver Modules page:
http://dqd.com/~mayoff/aolserver/.
