Not sure if this helps you, but it helped me. Give it a try. It was a App Server 9.1 install on Vista. I added the following to the domain.xml file in the domain1 default domain. I found it on a similar thread and tried it and it worked for me!
Bob
<jvm-options>-Dcom.sun.enterprise.server.ss.ASQuickStartup=false </jvm-options>
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