The where isn't as important as the how. If you can't get the console running (and
you should be able to - it's a webapp too), then you need to manually edit the WebLogic confix.xml file to let the server know where the component is. WLS 6.1, like most recent-vintage multiservers would rather you packaged everything up in an EAR file, however.
Beyond that, I recommend you inquire in the WebLogic forum - they have more expertise on that specific product.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.