Snow Leopard Server - SSL Certificate Issue

Hi. I am hoping someone can shine some light into an issue I am currently experiencing with SSL Certificates on the Snow Leopard Server which hosts out websites. This past weekend an SSL certificate pertaining to our primary domain expired which caused users to receive error messages prior to accessing the website ... the error message stated "the site's security certificate has expired!"
I have since renewed the certificate via networksolutions.com and applied it on the Mac server. The certificate was applied successfully and i have added the certificate the sites along with restarting the apache to take in the settings. However, the certificate is not propagating out at all. I have also restarted the mac server as well in case there was something in the cache causing issues but unfortunately, the issue still exists.
I have also removed the certificate entirely and reapplied it from scartch to make sure the original certificate wasn't causing any issues.
Has anyone else incurred a similar issue or would anyone have any insight on how to possibly resolve the issue?
Thank you!

Just a quick update. the DNS seems fine but I am getting errors in the logs as follows.
May 12 09:37:34 server jabberd/sm[2084]: version: jabberd sm 2.1.24.1-326.5
May 12 09:37:34 server org.jabber.jabberd[2082]: ERROR: router died. Shutting down server.
May 12 09:37:34 server com.apple.launchd[1] (org.jabber.jabberd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
May 12 09:37:34 server jabberd/sm[2084]: attempting connection to router at 127.0.0.1, port=5347
May 12 09:37:34 server jabberd/sm[2084]: shutting down
May 12 09:38:45 server jabberd/sm[2167]: version: jabberd sm 2.1.24.1-326.5
May 12 09:38:45 server jabberd/sm[2167]: attempting connection to router at 127.0.0.1, port=5347
May 12 09:38:45 server jabberd/sm[2167]: shutting down
May 12 09:38:45 server org.jabber.jabberd[2165]: ERROR: router died. Shutting down server.
May 12 09:38:45 server com.apple.launchd[1] (org.jabber.jabberd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
I checked the the crash report which has the follow kernal issue.
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x000000010011adb0
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Any ideas?

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After rebooting the Xserve, my VPN server works fine except for the DNS. My client receives the correct informations:
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