Automatic 0.6.2 on Duo Issues

I've been trying to get automatic running on my Duo for the last few days with little to no success. I'm not much for unix so that doesn't help matters but i'll walk you thru where i've gotten to.

i have the automatic bin installed and am currently starting the daemon manually so i can pass it custom paths to where my config file is (why on earth it's it /etc/ and not in c/addons-config/ i'll never know) and where to output a log file. for example:

automatic -v 5 -l /c/addons-config/automatic/auto.log -c /c/addons-config/automatic/automatic.conf

based on another thread for automatic (x86 version) here on this board i've configured my automatic.conf file as such (i've removed all the commenting to keep this code box small and readable:

transmission-version = "1.3"
rpc-host = "localhost"
rpc-port = 8181 (i assume this port is the same as the transmission web-access port? its the same port i use for transmission-remote-dotNet)
rpc-auth = "MYUSER:MYPASS"

feed = { url => "http://ezrss.it/feed" }
interval = 30
# upload-limit = 10 (unchanged)
# use-transmission = yes (disabled for testing)
# start-torrents = yes (disabled for testing)
torrent-folder = "/c/media/BitTorrent/sources/"
statefile = "/c/addons-config/automatic/automatic.state"
filter = { pattern => ".*" folder => "" }

as you can see i've changed some things etc, hopefully they're correct. i wish the automatic.conf-sample had actual examples in it!!!

anyway, the log i'm generating is throwing this at me at level 1:

../src/web.c, 523: Upload to 'http://localhost:8181/transmission/rpc' failed: number of redirects hit maximum amount

any ideas? i've tried various setups using external instead of 1.3 to just try to save .torrent files to my sources directory and let transmission do the watching and starting itself but those attempts haven't born any fruit either.

thanks,
hellbent