Okay,
It takes a confident person to admit the $&%&$# up. 🙂
First of all, I had the WRONG version of JBOSS installed. Problem #1 resolved. 🙂
The second problem was that I needed to add the client jars into the right place which was in the user class path under the java client configuration dialog.
Once I did this, it mysteriously started working correctly….
Go figure. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Cheers