PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer for reading property files and database

I am trying to create two PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer's, one for accessing property files and the other for accessing the database... the code is as follows

  <bean id="otherPropertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
        <property name="properties">
        <bean class="org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationConverter" factory-method="getProperties">
            <constructor-arg>
                <bean class="org.apache.commons.configuration.DatabaseConfiguration">
                    <constructor-arg ref="myDataSource"/>
                     <constructor-arg value="dbo.APPLICATIONPROPERTIES"/>
                     <constructor-arg value="NAME"/>
                   <constructor-arg value="VALUE"/>
                </bean>
            </constructor-arg>
        </bean>
        </property>
    </bean>

  <bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="com.fexco.wuams.util.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="locations">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:database.properties</value>
            </list>         
        </property>
    </bean>

I have the following ComboPooledDataSource bean

<bean id="myDataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClass" value="${driver}"/>
    <property name="jdbcUrl" value="${url}"/>
    <property name="user" value="${username}"/>
    <property name="password" value="${password}"/>
    <property name="initialPoolSize" value="5"/>
    <property name="minPoolSize" value="5"/>
    <property name="maxPoolSize" value="5"/>
    <property name="maxIdleTime" value="1200"/>
    <property name="idleConnectionTestPeriod" value="300"/>
  </bean>

which works perfectly for the rest of my application except when i try use it for my bean id="otherPropertyConfigurer"... i get the following error

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; nested PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.MethodInvocationException: Property 'driverClass' threw exception; nested exception is java.beans.PropertyVetoException: Could not locate driver class with name '${jdbc.driverClassName}'.
    at org.springframework.beans.AbstractPropertyAccessor.setPropertyValues(AbstractPropertyAccessor.java:104)
    at org.springframework.beans.AbstractPropertyAccessor.setPropertyValues(AbstractPropertyAccessor.java:59)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1275)
    ... 72 more

if i hardcode the database variables in ComboPooledDataSource (e.g. change ${jdbc.driverClassName} to net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver everything works fine but for some reason when i add the otherPropertyConfigurer, my original propertyConfigurer does not work

Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this?