Failed to deploy ESXi agent appliance

I am having difficulties deploying the ESXi agent from AMS. I am running Acronis B+R w/Dedup 10 on my vCenter server. I have seen one post in this forum that exactly matched my scenario, but the solution did not help me (having to do with licensing). I have also tried manually installing the OVF template in vSphere, but it seems the problem is that the "AcronisESXAppliance" VM locks up during bootup. It gives me the 3-second countdown screen, then moves on to the next text-based screen. The last command it issues is "initrd /boot /ramdisk.dat". Then nothing else comes up. This makes the automated agent deployment from AMS fail. The CPU utilization for that VM pegs out at 100% until I stop the VM.

I am very new at VMWare and even newer with Acronis B+R.

This is the error I get when attempting the auto-deploy. SSIVC is my vCenter server, 192.168.1.233 is an ESXi 4.1.0 host:

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Log Entry Details
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Type: Error
Date and time: 3/25/2011 7:41:31 AM
Backup plan: [None]
Task: [None]
Managed entity type: [None]
Managed entity: [None]
Machine: ssivc.supstl.local
Code: 14,712,855(0xE08017)
Module: 224
Owner:
Message:
Failed to deploy the virtual appliance on the following ESX hosts: 192.168.1.233.
Additional info:
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Error code: 32791
Module: 224
LineInfo: a20120e20d7da050
Fields:
Message: Failed to deploy the virtual appliance on the following ESX hosts: 192.168.1.233.
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Error code: 32790
Module: 224
LineInfo: a20120e20d7da0f3
Fields:
Message: Failed to deploy the virtual appliance on the following ESX hosts: ssivc.
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Acronis Knowledge Base: http://kb.acronis.com/errorcode/

Event code: 0x00E08017+0x00E08016
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Thanks for any assistance!
Tony