Kendall,
I've never seen those dead message queue warnings on EV6.0sp1(2) installs I've done. I think you may be hitting a bug that got fixed down the road. If you can, you might want to stress less about it until you do the upgrade.
Although, with that said, you'll want to make sure the dcom settings (permissions wise) give the VSA permissions to make those dcom sessions go.
micah