tough time with proxypass

["james" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been using proxy pass in the simplest of cases to send URLs to a tomcat backend without an issue:

#Tomcat ajp connection for isbn's
ProxyPass / ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/

Now
 I am trying to integrate the tomcat app with an apache virtual host and
 am having a troubling time. I am able to separate some URLs between the
 two application by forwarding just specific directories to the tomcat
server. The following works as expected with the below directories being
 answered by tomcat and all others being answered by the apache virtual
host.

        ProxyPass /isbn ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/isbn
        ProxyPass /images ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/images
        ProxyPass /skins ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/skins
        ProxyPass /assets ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/assets
        ProxyPass /_javascript_ ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/_javascript_
        ProxyPass /admin ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/admin
        ProxyPass /secure ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/secure
        ProxyPass /pages ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/pages

But
 I am having trouble proxying base URL locations in the below instance. I
 get an apache httpd 404 error instead of the request being relayed to
the tomcat server

        ProxyPass       /AccountLogin.jdmx ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/AccountLogin.jmdx
        ProxyPassReverse        /AccountLogin.jdmx ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/AccountLogin.jmdx


So
 I wanted to just by default send requests to tomcat and exclude a few
of the apache virtual directory directories but strangely htiting my
site at the /category URL in this setup does not go to the apache
virtual host but gets answered with a 404 by tomcat

        #Tomcat ajp connection for isbn's
        ProxyPass /category !
        ProxyPass / ajp://162.243.220.88:8009/


I'm
 pretty confused on how to debug this since it only works in the most
basic of circumstances. Clearly I am doing something completely wrong. 

Server version: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)