Using Spring 2.5, Tomcat 6.0.18, Hibernate Search Annotations. (version 3.1.x)

I am trying to programatically set some Hibernate Search properties. (Reason is to be able to use a single build process to build my war for both master and slave nodes).
For example, depending on the local ip address of the node, I would initialize the directory provider to either the slave or master directory provider.
I am using Spring 2.5 and was originally declaring my Hibernate sessionFactory as a bean of type AnnotationSessionFactoryBean.
Now I am trying to set the properties programatically by extending AnnotationSessionFactoryBean and overriding the setHibernateProperties method. All of this gets executed when I start the app, however the DirectoryProvider initialization process does not seem to run as normal.

I'm wondering if I am violating some order by setting the properties programatically when the sessionFactory is initialized.
I realize this is probably a little confusing but can provide more information if anyone has any knowledge in this area that they can share.

Some code would be helpful here ;-)

I actually got this to work. Was a configuration problem on my behalf.
By simply extending AnnotationSessionFactoryBean, I am setting hibernateProperties programatically rather than via applicationContext.xml

Thanks