Most of the latest versions of the Blueprints projects are built on JavaEE 5. So they won't install on Sun AppServer 8.2.
The one exception other than old versions of the bits is Adventure Builder. This was built for J2ee 1.4 and should run on Sun AppServer 8.2 using Derby (JavaDB).
Adventure Builder wasn't setup to work with Creator out of the box. You should be able to setup a project and open it in Creator, but you will not have the necessary wizards or libraries for compiling the EJB code without some manual updates.
All the latest projects like the Petstore and BluePrints Solutions Catalog are now, Netbeans enabled by default.
Hope this helps...
Thanks - Mark