I got past that error and now the nginx error log has this:
2013/03/14 14:22:10 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3000/", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:10 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3001/", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:10 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3002/", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:10 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3003/", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:10 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3004/", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:27 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET /clients HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3004/clients", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:27 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET /clients HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3000/clients", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:27 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET /clients HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3001/clients", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:27 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET /clients HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3002/clients", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:27 [error] 1537#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET /clients HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3003/clients", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:22:28 [error] 1537#0: *12 no live upstreams while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.20.3, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://backend/", host: "ndeavor.ameipro.com"
2013/03/14 14:23:09 [info] 1537#0: *1 client 192.168.20.3 closed keepalive connection
2013/03/14 14:23:09 [info] 1537#0: *15 client 192.168.20.3 closed keepalive connection