A: 

I tried two avenues.

1) Try to get BO not to initiate a DIST Transaction 2) Try to resolve the error that BO returns when performing a DIST TRANS on our serevrs.

I was successful finding a solution for #2:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/fix-new-transaction-cannot-enlist-in-the-specified-transaction-coordinator-on-server-2003-sp2/

Velika