@tjhudson,
It's not so much about grammar as it is about useage at various historical periods. Latin continued to be used in intellectual circles, particularly the Church, long, long after the fall of the Roman Empire. These people were extremely careful not to let the language "deteriorate" into something "vulgar" like Italian or Spanish or French. However, being human, as time wore on there was a slippage in the rules of grammar. This is easy to see if you compare some Medieval texts in Latin to "Classical" texts of the Romans.
Solo may have seemed right to the Medieval scholars, but I agree with George --
soli is preferable if you're going the classical route.