Thanks for the input sweet_angel, but that wasn't the problem. There were errors in the default server.xml of tomcat. However, having got that problem fixed, the damn thing still won't run. It gets to "Creating MBeanServer" and stops. The cursor continues blinking (ie the batch file doesn't freeze) but it just doesn't go any further than that. I've attached a copy of all the important configuation files in the attached zip file, so if someone would take a look at them and tell me what's wrong, I'll be really grateful.
Cheers,
cgkanchi