Spring Data Neo4j Namespace Configuration Fails on Reload

I started a graph DB project using Neo4j a couple of weeks ago and decided to use Spring Data Neo4j to make my life easier. I got my app up without much hassle using the Spring Data Neo4j namespace configuration to configure my application in XML. This is quickly done with just 2 lines of XML:

<neo4j:config storeDirectory="/var/neo4j" base-package="graph.model" />
<neo4j:repositories base-package="graph.repositories"/>

Everything worked fine until I embedded my project in a larger Spring project which loads around 15 or so top level application context files for all the modules. Suddenly my configuration started throwing exceptions: