Rachel,
When dealing with QA environments you should be using production mode Agentry servers rather than development mode ones. The development mode servers are intended only for your local development work. Once you are ready to promote forward to a QA / Test environment you should publish a production mode version of your application and migrate that to the QA environment.
The production mode files published (2 files) can be copied over to the Application/Production folder on the QA server and will be picked up automatically. Rememeber to also copy over any assocaited java jar files and configuration changes (.ini/.sql) files as well. While the Agentry server will pickup any new production changes automatically, you do need to restart the server if you have any java changes before they will take effect.
--Bill