well, i took the easy route to solve my problem - i used the rpms,
and my original problem seems to be fixed.
but now the problem is that from the server itself, i can
successfully go to "mydomain:8080", but not from any other machine.
i can still reach my apache server running on port 80 from any other
machine, just not aolserver on 8080.
thanks everyone for your help.
mkm