Hi Christian, thanks for responding! I wrote a reply to you when i first saw your post, but it looks like it didn't get to the list somehow. I'm still in Windows XP, though I imagine I'll have to switch over to 7 or something soon. soon. I think you are right - the problem is that I have not been able to successfully start the server.
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