I looked around in the other postings and there was one labled " Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/zerog/lax/LAX ( 1 2 )" towards the bottom of the thread, there is intelligent remark of renaming existing versions of java to java.old and linking (ln -s) the new java to that dir. It sounded great, but it didn't work for me. Any other suggestions would be great! Thanks! Brian Volk