java.net.ConnectException Connection Refused

I recently resolved a very frustrating problem (java.net.ConnectException Connection Refused) with Blogger.com and posted the solution to http://blogger-support-issues.blogspot.com/. When I changed my ftp user, the original user had permissions and landed in /wwwroot/blogs/ never seeing /wwwroot/ folders. The issue seems to have cropped up in my archive settings as I'd changed the default publishing settings to: /wwwroot/blogs/blog/ but my archive settings were: /blogs/blog/ which resulted in the error.

Also, I changed my ftp host name from "example.com" to ftp.example.com.