I just read the afisk (limeware developer) thread on unable to
connect.

I downloaded the 1.6d with jre 1.1.8 as mentioned in the thread
"Users unable to connect". While this does not help you
mac folks, it appears to have completely fixed my windows 2000
problem. I don't know what Sun and microsoft have jointly
done in the newer virtual machines (the error is present in
either virtual machine) but it's definitely not compatible with
1.6d

Thanks.
Bob