Essbase, APS, Shared Services and MicroStrategy

I'm trying to connect up my MicroStrategy front end to an Essbase application. It seems that I can talk to the XMLA Provider services but when I try to get information about a specific application I get an error. I have gone in to the essbase.properties and added the following:
webservice.guest.name=Admin
webservice.guest.password=password
and changed system.log.trace.enable=true to system.log.trace.enable=false
When in EAS console I can see the authenticating Essbase server and have added and can open the Hyperion Provider Server. However, I'm just not connecting to the application.
First, can someone tell me what logs I can look at?
Second, has anyone connected to MicroStrategy through XMLA before?
I know I'm green but I don't have anywhere to turn right now.
Thanks,
Dan

When we did this we stumbled across something that was causing an issue and couldn't believe that's what it was. The path we were using for the XMLA provider is case sensitive. I forget the exact path we had, but I believe it was the last part of it had to be in all caps.
BTW - for what it's worth, we were pretty disappointed when we finally got it up and running. We had been told they had full functionality with Essbase using the MDX provider. We assumed since they were using MDX that it would be good, we were very wrong. They basically use very simplistic MDX to bring data sets back into MicroStrategy where they render the data in a relational format to make it fit into their existing platform. I was very disappointed at how they watered down the MDX. They said they would look to improve it in future releases, but I don't think it is a big focus for them.

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