Podcast Producer 2, Jobs Failing

We are in the process of setting up our xserve for podcast producer, but I am running into an issue.
When I submit a podcast, the job shows up in Xgrid Admin but then fails shortly after. When I look at the individual job log, it fails on the same task each time:
task "import-plugin-movie-generated" state change to "Failed"
task "publish-plugin-movie-generated" state changed to "Failed"
When I go to Server Admin>Podcast Producer>Logs>Podcast Producer Server Error Log I get the following error.
/usr/share/podcastproducer/pcastserd/lib/watcher/watcher/watcher.rb:#in 'start' :Ruby threads cannot be used in RubyCocoa without patches to the Ruby interpreter
Please let me know if you have any suggestions, as I can't find really anything about this error online or in any other documentation.

This group is usually reserved for issues specific to the Xserve itself and you are more likely to get an answer - or at least get more experienced eyes on your problem in a more appropriate group. Like the Podcast Producer discussion group:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1355
A very technical discussion of this issue - or at least a very similar one is here at StackOverFlow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1733426/ruby-threads-cannot-be-used-in-rubyco coa-without-patches-to-the-ruby-interpreter
Good luck,
=Tod

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